Pig in a Pen
Written by: Traditional
Times Played 10
First Played 04-19-2003
Last Played 12-30-2022
Lyrics:
- 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"