These are lyrics to Steve Benbow's version:

O'Rafferty's pig was a wonderful animal,
Built like a battleship, solid and stout.
His manners disgraced the very worst cannibal,
Impudence written all over his snout.

The night he got loose, there was such a commotion,
The women were screaming, the men turning pale,
All running and jumping, colliding and bumping,
And everyone making a grab at his tail.

O'Rafferty got the ol' pig in a corner.
He jumped onto his back and ran into a drain.
At twenty past seven, his home was in heaven
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.

O'Rourke's wooden leg lay all splintered and broken.
He lay on the ground calling Doctor Lamont,
When Paddy O'Toole, said, "Don't be a fool.
It's a hammer a saw and a joiner you want."

He slid round the side of the greengrocer's barrow,
Right into the grocers shop, next to McCann's.
He fell in the butter, and slid in the gutter,
And that's how he kept slipping out of our hands.

He shot round the corner, met Councillor McDuffy,
A man of long standing and lofty ideas.
The pig he collided; McDuffy backslided,
And down went the standing of 45 years.

The widow Malone was knocked through a shop window.
In pickles and jam and red herrings she lay.
She had egg and tomato all over her garter,
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.

Then fat Mrs. Dyer, she ran like an elephant,
Puffing and blowing with Mrs. McGuire.
She fell on the ground, and begorra the sound,
Was just like the burst of a pneumatic tyre.

Then Paddy McNichol, the heavyweight champion,
Ran at the pig with a big rolling pin.
He struck it a blow which hit Mrs. Munro,
And lifted her bustle right under her chin.

At last when they heard the pig had been captured,
They all had a thanksgiving supper they say,
And cabbage and bacon vindictively taken,
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.