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.
(Alternate version)
Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy’s gone a-hunting,
To get a little rabbit skin
To wrap ….

As round as an apple,
As deep as a cup,
All the king’s horses
Can’t pull it up.

Zum, gali-gali-gali,
Zum gali-gali,
Zum, gali-gali-gali,
Zum gali-gali,
(one group continues to sing this behind the verses)
Eh-chalutz leh mon avo-dah,
Avo-dah lah mon eh-chalutz.
Eh-chalutz leh mon avo-dah,
Avo-dah lah mon eh-chalutz.
From the dawn till setting sun
Every ….

Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay.
My, oh my what a wonderful day!
Plenty of sunshine, plenty of rain.
Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay.
Mister Bluebird’s on ….

Young Roger came tapping at Dolly’s window,
Thumpaty, thumpaty, thump!
He asked for admittance; she answered him “No!”
Frumpaty, frumpaty, frump!
“No, no, Roger, no! as you came you may go!”
Stumpaty, stumpaty, stump!

Young lambs to sell!
Young lambs to sell!
If I’d as much money as I could tell
I never would cry Young lambs to sell!

YOU shall have an apple,
You shall have a plum,
You shall have a rattle-basket,
When your dad comes home.

You ride behind and I’ll ride before,
And trot, trot away to Baltimore.
You shall take bread, and I will take honey,
And both of us carry a purse full of money.

“You are old, Father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
“In ….

You are going out to tea today,
So mind how you behave;
Let all accounts I have of you
Be pleasant ones, I crave.
Don’t spill your tea or gnaw your bread,
And don’t tease ….