// Workers AI · dad joke modeIs "A-Hunting We Will Go" a song? Does it paws for a moment?

For the Goodies episode, see Hunting Pink.

For the Quantum Leap episode, see "A Hunting We Will Go" (Quantum Leap).

"A-Hunting We Will Go"
Song
Published	1777
Composer	Thomas Augustine Arne

A variant of the melody

"A-Hunting We Will Go" is a popular folk song and nursery rhyme composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne. Arne had composed the song for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera in London.

See also

• A-Haunting We Will Go (disambiguation), a title play on this song
• "Bye, baby Bunting, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting", a similarly constructed song
• "Ee Aye Addio" - an English football chant to the same tune
• "The Farmer in the Dell" - a song with similar lyrics, content, and music
• "You're in the Army Now" - another song with similar lyrics