Vaccinate the Pigs
When I lived on the farm in West Texas
Dad had a bunch of young pigs
One day he said “Come on boys, we got a job,
Let’s go down to the pig digs”
He said, we’ve got vaccinate them all
And we all must do our bit
You boys catch a pig and bring him to me
Into that pen and hold it
Then your mom will pull the his hind legs apart
I’ll shoot the medicine in
Then you boys have another pig ready
So we can do it again
Big “J” and I thought, Boy! This will be fun
Catching those pigs for our Dad
But there were about fifty pigs in all
And after ten, I’d been “had”
It was the hardest work I’d ever done
Catching a pig’s hard enough
But those devils fight you all of the time
Didn’t know they were so tough
It was dark by the time the job was done
The next day I couldn’t move
It was all in vain, that work was for naught
As all the pigs we did lose
Copyright © Charles Sides | Year Posted 2011
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