This Pig Went to Market

Mother Goose, (0 - 0)

Original Text

Mother Goose's Melody: A facsimile reproduction of the earliest known edition, ed. W. F. Prideaux (London: A. H. Bullein, 1904): 54. DeLury Collection F, Fisher Rare Book Library. The original is Mother Goose's Melody: or, Sonnets for the Cradle (London: Francis Power, 1791).

1This pig went to market,

2That pig staid at home;

3This pig had roast meat,

4That pig had none;

5This pig went to the barn-door,

6And cry'd week, week, for more.

Notes

1] See The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona and Peter Opie (1951; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), no. 412, pp. 349-50. Back to Line

5] The Opies' version, based on Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744), ends:

And this little pig cried, Wee-wee-wee-wee-wee,
I can't find my way home.

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Publication Start Year

1728

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

RPO 1998.

Rhyme

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