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PIGGIES
The Beatles
Composicao: George Harrison
White Album
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies,
Life is getting worse;
Always having dirt to
Play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to
Play around in.
In their styes with all their backing,
They don't care
What goes on around.
In their eyes there's something lacking.
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives.
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives.
Clutching forks and knives to
Eat their bacon.
Manson interpreted "piggies" to mean members of the Establishment. He saw the song as
telling him that the Establishment needed "a damn good whacking." Manson frequently quoted
the line referring to the need for a "whacking."
The song refers to forks and knives. Rosemary LaBianca received 41 knive wounds, Leno
LaBianca received 12 knive wounds and 7 fork wounds. On a wall in the LaBianca home, in
Leno's blood, was written the phrase "Death to Pigs."
•Despite its jovial tone, "Piggies" is one of the most lyrically controversial Beatles tracks, depicting as it does a series of cannibalistic "pigs" in "starched white shirts." Though "pig" was pejorative '60s slang for a policeman, a term which survives today, Harrison was always adamant that the "piggies" in question were representative of upperclass society, referring to the song rather obliquely as a "social comment." ("Pig" was also in common usage at the time as a way to describe anyone that was power- or money-hungry.) Notorious cult leader Charles Manson, who led his followers to commit a series of grisly murders in 1969, reportedly became convinced that "Piggies" was one of a series of White Album tracks instructing him to instigate a race war against the power elite. Indeed, the murderers wrote the word "piggies," as well as other lyrics from the album, on the wall in their victims' blood.
•Harrison may have literally had the last word on the meaning, however, with the original fourth verse. It wasn't used in the released version, but is present in the demo and was included in a number of Japanese live performances in 1991:
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Playing piggy pranks
You can see them on their trotters
At the piggy banks
Paying piggy thanks
To thee pig brother!
you get any sharper lad you will cut yourself ever wondered why some will not eat pork ?.
Originally posted by TopsyTurvyOne
why do human beings and pigs have so many close affinities?
pigs are known for their intelligence.
pig insulin is used in place of the human variety for those with diabetes.
looking at those two piglets showing in the OP. i almost mistook them
for children, at first glance.
i imagine that if you stand a young pig up on its hind legs, you would can observe
something uncannily akin to the human buttocks.
is there a possibility that humankind is the result of the genetic manipulation
or crossing of pig and ape dna, and that some know this clearly?
Depicting Jews – and sometimes also Zionists – as "the descendants of apes and pigs" is extremely widespread today in public discourse in the Arab and Islamic worlds.