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COMING SOON

Pig in a Pen

Traditional
Total Plays: 10

Chorus I got a pig, home in a pen (note 1) Corn to feed him on All I need is a pretty little girl To feed him when I'm gone Dark clouds are rising (note 2) Sure sign of rain Get your old grey bonnet on Sweet little Liza Jane [chorus] Bake 'em biscuits, baby Bake 'em good and brown When you get them biscuits baked We're Alabama bound [chorus] Goin' on a mountain (note 3) To sow a little cane Raise a barrel of sorghum (note 4) Sweet little Liza Jane [chorus] [chorus] Notes (1) in the 1964 version with the Black Mountain Boys, the chorus is not sung before the first verse (2) this is the order of the verses on "Old And In The Way" (and on the 1962 and 1964 versions), but Jerry sings this verse last instead of first on "Breakdown" (3) it sounds as if Jerry gets the words muddled on the version on "Old And In The Way", and starts to sing "Bake 'em biscuits ..." again so that it comes out something like "Bake them on a mountain"! (4) Jerry sings something different in the earliest version of this - perhaps "Mix a barrel of sorghum"