Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'

Subject: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Maggie
Date: 04 Dec 99 - 09:24 AM

When I was a child, my mom used to sing me a song that started, "One day I met a wee little pig, with a [snort sound] and a "psst" and a [whistle] and a [gargle], walking along the road. 'Oh where are you going, my wee little pig, with a [snort sound] and a 'psst' and a [whistle] and a [gargle], where are you going?' said I." I believe it was a Woody Guthrie song, although I may be mistaken.

Does anyone have any idea of the name of the song and/or the author and/or the artist? It would mean a lot to me to be able to track it down and pass it down to my own children.

Many thanks in advance!

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Judy Cook
Date: 04 Dec 99 - 01:13 PM

Can't help, but it's a song from my childhood as well - I still sing it with some regularity. I know the words and the tune, but not the background. I hope somebody else has the details.

--Judy Cook

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Maggie
Date: 05 Dec 99 - 09:44 AM

Judy --

I'm so glad to find someone else who grew up with this song!

Could you please post the lyrics (or send them to me at [e-mail])? It would be MUCH appreciated.

And if anyone has any information at all about how I could get a recording of it, it would mean a lot to me.

Many thanks in advance!

Subject: ADD: One day I met a wee little pig
From: Judy Cook
Date: 05 Dec 99 - 11:21 PM

One day I met a wee little pig
With a [snort] and a [whistle] and a [ptt] and a [gargle]
Walking along the way.

I said, "Where are you going my wee little pig
With a ...
"Where are you going?" said I.

The little pig answered me, clear as a bell.
He said, "[snort] and a [whistle]....
That's what he said to me.

So if you ever meet a wee little pig
Who says, "[snort]....
You'll know what he means, I'm sure.

He means [snort] and a [whistle] and a [ptt] and a [gargle]
That's what he means I'm sure.


Maggie, I'm sure we are not the only ones who know this song, but we may be the only two who admit it.
--Judy (silly-as-they-come)

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,andrea
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 10:49 PM

maggie! my sister and i still sing that song to our kids and it gets harder and harder to get through it without laughing... did you ever get more info on it?   FYI... we had the 45 record and the song on the flip side was roll jenny jenkins and sung by the same man!

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 01:23 AM

I've grouped this thread with our threads on "The Old Sow." Not the same song, but it appears the sow and the pig speak the same language. I wonder if there's more to learn about the Wee Little Pig, or Maggie and Judy and Andrea are the World Experts on this song.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Kathy
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 02:20 PM

Just in case you still wonder, this is sung by Tom Glazer, and you can find the song on Itunes.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Linda
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 12:08 PM

My cousin sent me this song through e-mail. If there was a way to attach it to the link I would send it to everyone.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,guest, mark
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 01:38 PM

I used to have an old 78 rpm with that song on it when I was about 5. That along with "Goodbye Liza Jane".

Should would like to track down those old vinyls.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 02:58 PM

Google

media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/.../SFW45068.pdf

It is song #5 on Tom Glazer's album. You can read the song there.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Mar 12 - 12:46 AM

I believe it can also be found on Burl Ives' Animal Fair album. I recall it as a child and it seemed to be on a Children's Record Guild album.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 03:49 PM

Yes, I know that song. It was on an old 78 children's record. But I have no idea who the artist was. I've never found another person
who knew that song.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 06:21 PM

Mr Cameron's favourite song!

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Marion Grigsby - North Palm Beach, FL
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 02:29 PM

Then your Moms probably signed you up for the Children's Record Guild where records came in the mail every so often. I still have our collection. That song was on a double album called Folk Songs for Singing and Dancing and the songs were sung by Tom Glazer. Song List was the Swapping Song, Goodbye Liza Jane, What Are You Made Of? Taddle Diddle Dink-Dink, A Capital Ship (for an ocean trip was the Walloping Window Blind), The Little Pig and Jennie Jenkins.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Clifford Greenblatt
Date: 29 Jan 21 - 09:06 PM

Tom Glazer - Folk Songs For Singing & Dancing (Young People's Records / Children's Record Guild)
https://youtu.be/jXHZmHRm18s

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 09:30 AM

It might be significant that the earliest versions of The Old Sow were called 'Little Pigs' so these might have given rise to both similar songs.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,#
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 10:03 AM

https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW45068.pdf

Song #5. It's called 'Honk Hiss Tweet GGGGGGGGGG'

Subject: LYRIC ADD
From: GUEST,#
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 10:11 AM

5. Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG
What child doesn’t laugh at the hilarity of different silly mouth sounds a singer may produce? Gargling, a lost art, always brings a giggle.

“Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG” also
reminds kids of those not-so-acceptable noises
the mouth can imitate, and brings on even
more hilarity.

One day I met a wee little pig,
With a honk, hiss, tweet, g-g-g-g-g,
Walking along the road.

“Oh where are you going, my wee little pig?
With a honk, hiss, tweet, g-g-g-g-g,
Where are you going?” said I.

The little pig answered me, clear as a bell.
He said, “Honk, hiss, tweet, g-g-g-g-g.”
That’s what he said to me.

So if you ever meet a wee little pig,
With a honk, hiss, tweet, g-g-g-g-g,
Walking along the road
You’ll go,

“Honk, hiss, tweet, g-g-g-g-g.”
That’s what you’ll do, I know.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Jos
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 10:29 AM

Have a look on ebay - a new CD is listed, by Tom Glazer, with this among two dozen children's songs.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 02:31 PM

Here's an early version of The Old Sow for comparison. It is definitely the ancestor of The Old Sow but whether it has given rise to the song here is anyone's guess.
It comes from the second edition of The Whim of the Day, printed at Drury Lane, London, in 1792, p16.

The Little Pig
A Favourite Song
Sung by Mr. Fawcett, in the Mayor of Garrat.

The little pig laid without any straw,
Haugh (snorts) ha paugh ha (squeaks like a pig) ha shaw dau diddle dau;
The little pig laid without any straw,
Lingigo, lara lang, O Susan's a little woman.

We thought this pig it would make good pork
Haugh, hork paugh hork, hork shaw dau diddle dork
.....Susan she's a little woman.

I thought this pig it would make better bacon,
Haugh acon paugh acon, acon shaw dau diddle dacon etc.

At last we kill'd this little pig and of his hair we made a wig,
Haugh, hig paugh hig (tohu) (whistles) hig (squeaks) hig shaw dig diddle dig,
At last we kill'd this little pig O, etc.

It could be that this rather graphic song was softened for polite children's consumption, but my grandfather sang the graphic version to us kids and we were delighted.

'Favourite' is an accurate description, the song continued to be printed throughout the 19th century, and was revived in the 1920s by various yokel type singers, to achieve a second wave of popularity.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Principal Principles
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 02:41 PM

is it acceptable nowadays to use the word "yokels", since the word has negative connotations and unfairly stigmatises a recognisable group?

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 03:10 PM

You are absolutely right, PP! I was using it in an historical context as the artistes who recorded these versions were using the word as a selling point. They actually dressed up in smocks and had a piece of straw in their mouths. It didn't stay there long once they started snorting, raspberrying and whistling, or perhaps it was the straw that caused this.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Rigidly Righteous
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 03:57 PM

After such a courteous response to the problematising of the contested term now to be known as "The 'Y' Word", I understand that the Principal has withdrawn to his study to address the Collected Works of Thomas Hardy. He had a small red pencil in hand.


RR

(pp PP).

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 05:43 PM

If PP wants a more engaging task the Minstrel songsters on the Pittsburghe University site will give months of pleasure. Following that the Universal Songster of 1825 would fill up another couple of years. A small red pencil would soon be worn to a stub though I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,RR, pp PP
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 06:45 PM

I understand there's a lot of attention being turned in that direction already.
Yokels' feelings matter!

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 06:37 AM

I'm just as LGBTBAMEWOKEY as the next man. Yokels, Bumpkins and Beswicks unite!:)

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,RR pp PP
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 07:44 AM

The expression, "as the next man", being gender-specific and therefore only acceptable in contexts where a gender-presumptive discourse is appropriate, has been on PP's Little List for some time now.
The List itself, happily, is becoming more and more Inclusive, and will soon be redesignated "Compact Compendium". It's as good as the next Acronym.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 08:55 AM

Well, I'm a member of the AAA, Acronym Acrimony Anonymous. However we are in favour of tonguetwisters.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 08:58 AM

I could have said it's a pig to pronounce, but that might upset the porcine lobby.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,RR pp PP
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 11:51 AM

Now my colleague Jek the Flea has pointed out that "little" and "wee" being synonymous, he has decided to call out this tautology.
We think he has some issues concerning terminology and common usage. Either that or he thinks he's casting imitation pearls before real swine.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Ane o' the Swine.
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 12:06 PM

as one who now self-identifies as a Pig, I take exception to the term "real swine", as it implies a distinction between "Stye Pigs" and Squealer-Come-Lately "Trough Pigs".
Look to your principles, Principal.

Subject: RE: Help: 'One day I met a wee little pig'
From: GUEST,Life imitating what?
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 09:56 AM

Joking aside, it seems PETA has issued some guidelines about not using animals names in any insults (Piers Morgan interview)

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