I have even heard tell of a simple lad who thought that Tawney was _alluding_ to this song -- you know, "dance on down that Walker Shore".

The pig suffered quite a sea change on its trip across the Atlantic:

---- had a little dog,
The which was double-jointed.
He took it to the barbershop
To have its pecker pointed.

-- sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle by children in California, ca. 1945.