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Baby Bunting

Bye, baby Bunting' is a popular English language nursery rhyme and lullaby. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11018.

Lyrics

The most common modern version is:
Bye, baby Bunting,
Daddy’s gone a-hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin
To wrap the baby Bunting in.[1]


Origins

The term bunting is a term of endearment that may also imply 'plump'.[1] The earliest published version was published in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus in England in 1784.[1] A version in Songs for the Nursery 1805 had the longer lyrics:
Bye, baby Bunting,
Father's gone a-hunting,
Mother's gone a-milking,
Sister's gone a-silking,
Brother's gone to buy a skin
To wrap the baby Bunting in.[1]


In popular culture

  • The dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley contains the adapted reference 'Bye baby Banting, soon you'll need decanting'.
  • A mysterious man summoned during an incantation gone awry in the urban fantasy novel The Magicians (2009) by Lev Grossman recites the rhyme shortly before vanishing again.
  • "Each Peach, Pear, Plum" by Janet & Allan Ahlberg includes Baby Bunting as one of the characters "I spy".
  • In the "The Good, The Bad and the Queen" project, Damon Albarn sings "Bye, baby bunting" in "The Bunting Song".

 
Bunting can also refer to an infant Sleeping bag

An infant sleeping bag is a bag-like garment or covering worn by infants for sleeping in. Infant sleeping bags differ from regular sleeping bags in design and purpose, being designed primarily for indoor rather than outdoor use, and usually featuring either arm holes or sleeves.
The definition used in the British Standard[2] for safety of children's sleep bags is "sleep bags for the use of children with a minimum weight of 4 kg designed to provide sufficient warmth so as to remove the need for additional bedding when sleeping in a cot or similar product in which a child is contained." It goes on to exclude "garments with sleeves and feet, i.e. sleep suits or baby gros, or to products designed primarily for outdoor use or to keep children warm when in a pushchair."
The June 2009 issue of the SGS Softlines[3] publication provides more information about the British Standard, stating that it specifies minimum children's sleep bag safety requirements for chemical hazards, thermal hazards and insulation, entanglement, choking and suffocation hazards, structural integrity and flammability, and shows an example of a baby sleep bag.
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