The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8233   Message #50890
Posted By: gargoyle
24-Dec-98 - 11:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Tails and Trotters (Judy B Goodenough)
Subject: RE: A pig song
This PIG song has been a family favorite, it involves, SNORTS,(inner-reverse through the nose style), WHISTLES (sharp and quick) and BRRPPP's (through the lips- like a gasseous explosion) It is VERY vaguely along the the lines of "Charlie Fell Into the Bucket" a comedy tune from the turn of the century 1890-1910 and perhaps into the US Civil War years. ((Yes, my dearest, Mr. B.Seed...it is precisley the type of song that would come from MY family.))

There was an old man
Who had an old sow
Sas-O-Fer-Ral-Hu-Ray

Now this old sow
Had nine little pigs
SNORTigs BRRRPPTT igs WHISTLEigs
Nine little little pigs
Now this old sow
Had nine little pigs
Sas-O-Fer-Ral-Hu-Ray

The pigs they climbed
The garden wall
SNORTall BRRPTT all WHISTLEall
The pigs they climbed
The garden wall
Sas-O-Fer-Ral-Hu-Ray

Oh, Sue-zan, is a funny ol man
Oh, Sue-zan, is a funny ol man

^^