There's an entry in the Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes:

This little pig went to market,
This little pig stayed at home,
This little pig had roast beef,
This little pig had none,
And this little pig cried, Wee-wee-wee-wee-wee, I can't find my way home.

The first line of this infant amusement is quoted in a medley, 'The Nurse's Song', written about 1728 and included by Ramsay in the fourth volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany (1740). It is the most common toe or finger rhyme in the present day, and has been so for more than a century.

FT Thumb's LSB, C. 1760 / MG'S Melody, c. 1765, 'This Pig went to Market, That Pig staid at Home; This Pig had roast Meat, That Pig had none; This Pig went to the Barn Door, And cry'd Week, Week, for more'
Songs for the Nursery, 1805 / Vocal Harmony, c. 1806 / Nurse Lovechild's DFN, C. 1830 / Girl's Own Book, Mrs. Child, 1831 [1832] This Little Pig Went to Market, Walter Crane, 1869
N & Q, 1890, 3rd finger 'This little pig had bread and butter'; 1891, 'This little pig said, Me a bit, me a bit, me a bit, before it all be gone'
Pigling Bland, Beatrix Potter, 1913 / This Little Pig Went to Market, L. Leslie Brooke, 1922.

The Opies make no note of any political implications of this song/rhyme. It's just a finger/toe counting rhyme.

Here's "Song for Five Toes," also from Opie:

Let's go to the wood, says this pig,
What to do there? says that pig,
To look for my mother, says this pig,
What to do with her? says that pig,
Kiss her to death, says this pig.


Also take a look at this one from the same source:


This pig got in the barn, This ate all the corn,
This said he wasn't well, This said he would go and tell,
And this said—weke, weke, weke,
Can't get over the barn door sill.


Note the various interpretations of "Wee-wee-wee-wee-wee":
Weke, weke, weke
Me a bit, me a bit, me a bit
And cry'd Week, Week, for more'


I suppose there are political implications to some nursery rhymes, but I think perhaps we go to far in trying to read too much into too many of them. I think most are what they appear to be - just for fun.

-Joe Offer-