Baby Bunting

Contributors

Groundwater, Henrietta, ?-1971 (5751) Groundwater, Nan (6447)

Fieldworkers

Frølund Nielsen, Elisabeth (5338)

Date 08 July 1961

Track ID 56414

Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1961.79.B11

Original Tape ID

SA1961.079

Summary

A children's nursery rhyme:

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 row [wrap] poor baby bunting in.

Item Notes

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, p. 110, no. 1556
'Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes' (P. & I. Opie, 1951) p. 63

Recording Location

County - Orkney

Parish - Kirkwall and St Ola

Island - Orkney Mainland

Village/Place - Kirkwall

Language

English, Scots

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good