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Thread #106915   Message #2214007
Posted By: Art Thieme
12-Dec-07 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Versions: the pig got up and slowly walked away
Subject: RE: the last line what's the rest? - pig song
Mark, hello.
Fred got it from Gibson like I did.

The other pig songs:

(also from Bob Gibson singing under the name of "Samuel Hall")

There was an old woman who loved a swine,
Honey, said she,
Piggy dear, wilt thou be mine?
SNORT---says he.

Piggy I love no one but you, honey said she
To you my pig. I'll always be true.
SNORT---says he.

I build for you a silver box.
Honey, said she,
I'll put in it some argyle socks,
SNORT---says he!

(THEN I'd mention: "Kids, this is a SNORT ALONG SONG about a woman who fell in love with a PIG! Kids all laugh. --- Then
I'd say, "Just wait until you grow up. You'll see it happens every day!"----And then all the teachers laugh quite hard!!!)

The other pig song in the trilogy was the song from Sam Hinton I always felt was about ecology in that it shows how, in earlier times on the farm, they had to USE UP all of the pig!

What shall we do with the old sow's feet?
Make a good sauce for anyone to eat.
Sauce from the feet or any such thing,
The old sow caught the measles and she died in the spring.

What shall we do with the old sow's squeal?
That we can neither see nor feel,
With that we can't do one dam thing,
The old sow took the measles and she died in the spring.

...the sow's insides?
Make a big batch of sausage hides.

....old sow's tail?
...a good ol' whip or a bar for the flail.

and so on...

Art Thieme