Bye, baby bunting, 

Daddy's gone a hunting, 

To get a little hare's skin

To wrap a baby bunting in. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 83. No. CCCXCVI

Bye-baby-bunting,

Daddy's gone a-hunting,

To buy a little rabbit skin

To wrap up little baby in.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, 114. No. IV in Nursery Jingles Section

BYE, baby bunting, 

   Daddy's gone a hunting, 

To get a little hare's skin

To wrap a baby bunting in.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 148.

Bye, baby bunting,

Daddy's gone a-hunting,

Gone to get a rabbit skin

To wrap the baby bunting in.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.63. No. 25

Bee baw bunting, 

Daddy's gone a hunting, 

To get a little lamb's skin

To lap his baby bunting in.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 226. No. 551