Joe asked that I add this. Note the caveat. Sing it but don't print it elsewhere, please. I don't always have good luck with formatting stuff here. If it is all one mass of text I'll do another with br symbols.

NOTE The following is posted for the interest of members of the Mudcat Café, and should not be reproduced elsewhere without permission of the copyright holder, the University of Aberdeen. The song and the note on how it was collected are from the manuscript version of Volume 8 of the Greig Duncan Collection of Songs, from the North East of Scotland, which was part-edited by me, Ewan McVicar.

1 Oor little pigs lies wi' their backs aye bare, bare [grunt], -are, Sing dah reedle ah, Oh, my dad was a bonny wee man, [man (spoken shrilly) -grunt], -an, Oh my dad was a bonny wee man.

2 The little pigs lies wi' their tails half cocked, cocked [grunt], -ocked.

3 Oor old soo maks the finest o' pork, pork [grunt], -ork.

4 Oor old soo maks the finest o' bacon, bacon [grunt], -acon.

Mrs MARGARET GILLESPIE -- D

1636 OOR LITTLE PIGS Dm 395b; Gillespie 638-9. "Mrs Gillespie, noted 21st Oct. 1907. From Jamieson, music teacher, New Pitsligo. Nursery song. The rhythm is kept up where the rests are marked -- at the first place by a grunt through the nose to imitate a pig; at the second, by the word 'Man' spoken very shrilly (apparently to imitate a young pig), followed by a grunt as before, succeeded by the truncated word -- 'an'." (Dm)

Aye - always Soo - sow