Interesting post, Rob. I love this song very dearly & sing it myself regularly, but only ever to pigs and kangaroos... Here it is sang by Albert Richardson - the one & only:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XlfNsb6gc

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Following on from Glueman's Wooden Legged Wallaby, is the story of the Pig with the Wooden Leg which has been a party piece of mine for some years.

And though Folk might pass away without a whisper, such things are sure to live on eternally.