Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig (Rolf Harris)

Subject: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: Anglo
Date: 20 Dec 01 - 07:50 PM

Does anyone know this? I think it's an old London Music Hall song.

Chorus is something like:

Perhaps you may think it's not all true
But I don't care a fig
I leave it to you, do you think it's true
This wonderful Christmas Pig?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: nutty
Date: 20 Dec 01 - 08:21 PM

Here it says it was recorded by Rolf Harris so someone should have the words

WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PIG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: Anglo
Date: 20 Dec 01 - 08:30 PM

Good one, nutty. Google didn't turn that up for me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 12:18 AM

Our own JohnP and his wife, in their band, "Telynor," have one on their Christmas album, "Off the Beaten Track," which has a Christmas Pig song, but the title they show is "Christmas Day." I just got the CD, so don't have the words down, yet. they list it as a Trad. English carol.

If you search for a thread in the past week about "Mudcatter on radio" you will find a link to a radio program on which they performed this song and it is archived, so you could give a listen. If you can't find the thread, holler and I'll dig it up.

Fantastic CD, btw, I highly recommend it, esp. if one likes medieval-type music with hurdy-gurdy, recorders, crumhorn, cittern and lots of other unusual instruments!

kat

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: Anglo
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 01:38 AM

Thanks, Kat, but that song, a.k.a. "There Was A Pig Went Out To Dig," is a different animal, so to speak.

But thanks for pointing me to the radio program. I do have a couple of Telynor CDs, so I am familiar with them - not this particular CD though. I also have been known to crank away on the hurdy-gurdy :-)

But I'm still no closer to finding the Wonderful Xmas Pig. I suspect the Rolf Harris song is it. I should perhaps have posted my question before England went to sleep for the night.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 11:00 AM

Dear Anglo,

There is a Christmas song entitled, "The Wonderful Sucking Pig."

The 1st verse:

You all have heard of the Christmas Goose and the walloping great pie,
But I think to myself it's not much use to tell such a precious lie.
But I will tell you a wonder now, all true as I'm a sinner
About a wonderful sucking pig we had for Christmas dinner.

Is this a version of the one that you are thinking of?

I got this from a EFDSS magazine 1974.

It can also be found in "Marrow Bones" song book from the Hammond & Gardner Mss. Selected and edited by Frank Purslow. That again is EFDSS publication.

Dave R.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig
From: Anglo
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 11:53 AM

That's the One! I do have Marrowbones, so I'll check it out. Many thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig (Rolf Harris)
From: GUEST,Dippy
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 03:41 PM

I need a song about a christmas pig for the card im making my family!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wonderful Christmas Pig (Rolf Harris)
From: GUEST,Jumping Jack
Date: 15 Dec 12 - 04:06 PM

Perhaps this is not the best time to be picking a song connected with "Rolf Harris"