We ( Sunshine Arts for 16 years...previously, Dr Sunshine's Pavement Show for 23 years.) have a whole collection of Pig songs...Do them as 'The pig set'!

eg
When a pigs a failure
He straightens out his tail
But piggies tails are curly
Cos piggies never fail
(Taught to me by a lovely lady in the street at Sidmouth! we do it as a round)

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Four Pink Pigs.
This is the story of four pink pigs
Two of them little and two of them big
two of them little and two of them big
They danced all night at the Pigtown Jig

Now the two that was little was only half grown
But the two that was big was big as a barn
Big as a barn and tall as a tree
Send 'em on down to the factory

Slice 'em into bacon, cut 'em into ham
Stuff 'em into hot dogs , squeeze 'em into Spam
Pickle their livers and scramble their brain,
Throw their little eyes out in the rain

This is the story of two pink pigs
Leaning on the slop trough smokin' their cigs
Hoping to God they never get big
So they can dance all night at the Pigtown Jig

(From a young American singer in Edinburgh when I was working at
Edinburgh Folk Festival.....not suitable for vegetarians!)

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Whose Pigs are These...usual .....as a round

(we also recorded this with lots of different animals!
eg Whose Cow's are these.....
They are Ken Hughes' - I can tell 'em by their Moos

Whose Dogs are these
They are Baz Parkes' I can tell 'em by their barks   etc

Baz was part of our group , Ken was a singer from Shrewsbury
And all the other verses mentioned local folk people)

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Piggy on the railway picking up stones
Along came an engine and broke his bones
Oh! said piggy, that's not fair
Well said the engine driver...I don't care!

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Three Little Pigs...a brilliant song by the late Leslie Howarth
which we also recorded on 'Sunny Songs for Children'

Three little pigs they left the sty,
They bade their mother a fond goodbye
Each his fortune he would try
To prove them pigs of mettle

One went East and one went West
One by the road he thought the best
Each in property did invest
On which he proposed to settle

Now the first litte pig built a house of hay
He didn't have any foundations to lay
But a big bad wolf he came that way
And called on him to surrender

Little pig little pig let me come in
Oh no by the hairs on my chinny chin chin
Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in
Oh wasn't he sweet and tender.

Now the next little pig built a timber shack
To keep the weather from off his back
He though himself safe from all attack
But the wolf he though 'How easy'

O little pig ...etc
I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in
Oh wasn't he rich and greasy.

The third little pig built a house of brick
The walls were half a metre thick
Thinks he to himself 'This'll do the trick
The wolf can do his worst

Oh little pig etc...
And he blew till he damned near burst

He huffed and he puffed like a turbo jet
If he'd not lost his breath he'd be puffing there yet
Thinks he to himself a trap I must set
If this little pig's to be taken

Oh little pig, little pig won't you come out
For apples and turnips are lying about
But the piggy just laughed at him up his snout
For he always saved his bacon!

Then the wolf completely lost control
And tried to climb in through the chimney hole
But he tumbled right into the casserole
Oh how the broth did bubble

Then the little pig plied his knife and fork
For he liked wolf more than wolf liked pork
And many a bottle did lose it's cork
In toasting the end of his trouble

And when he had finished his carouse
He married the very sweetest of sows
And took her back home to his fine brick house
to live in honour and glory

Five little pigs in time did come
One went to market and one stayed home
One had roast beef and one had none....
(slight pause)
But that's another story!!!

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Brilliant rhyming scheme, a very clever and funny song. We do it with three kids from the audience and give them rubber snouts - (on thin elastic)
I sing and Maggie uses the wolfshead hat/mask we have. (used to be the late lamented 'Dudley'Vic Baker[Professor Wingnut] who took that part...hard to realise he died back in 1999!)
Also works really well with adults if you pick the right three, and get them to act the parts!

Cheers Dave Hunt (Dr Sunshine)