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"Bye, baby Bunting" (Roud 11018) is an English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby. [citation needed] Lyrics and melody. The most common modern version is:
"Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, [2] but others were once popular in North America.
Rock-a-bye Baby 'Hush a bye Baby', 'Rock a Bye Baby on the treetop' Great Britain c. 1765 [141] Round and Round the Garden: United Kingdom c. 1945 [142] See Saw Margery Daw: Great Britain c. 1765 [143] Taffy was a Welshman: Great Britain c. 1780 [144] This Little Piggy 'This Little Pig' Great Britain c. 1760 [145] Three Wise Men of Gotham
Pram race on Hessle Road, Hull A costumed team at the East Bergholt Pram Race in 2019. A pram race is a light-hearted sporting event held in several towns in England, often to raise money for local charities. Small teams race an unpowered "pram" vehicle through the streets of their town, one member riding inside it while the others push ...
Babies and small children in prams have a tendency to throw a temper tantrum when they don't get their own way, throwing all their toys that were in the pram out onto the floor in the process. By extension, the British phrase " to throw one's toys out of the pram " is used when we see similar behaviour in adults.
The term carrycot became more common in the UK after the introduction of lighter units with detachable baby carriers in the 1970s. As they developed through the years suspension was added, making the ride smoother for both the baby and the person pushing it. The word pram is etymologically a shortening of its now less common synonym perambulator.
Puerto Rico Air Management Services (PRAMS), an air charter and cargo operator, Miami International Airport, US; Pram (boat), a small utility dinghy with a transom bow rather than a pointed bow Optimist (dinghy), with a pram hull; Pram (ship), a type of shallow-draught, flat-bottomed ship (large watercraft) Pram (baby), a type of wheeled baby ...
Bunting (bird), Emberiza, a group of Old World passerine birds; Passerina, a group of birds in the Cardinalidae family known as the North American buntings; Blue bunting, Cyanocompsa parellina; Lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys; Plectrophenax, snow and McKay's buntings; Lapland longspur or Lapland bunting, Calcarius lapponicus