SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Song Challenge:   Maybe it was the tin-foil panties, maybe it's the summer heat, maybe it's our brand new grill; but, I find myself 'lusting in my heart' for some barbequed spare ribs, don't you?  That must be why I've picked this Challenge! idea from Roger the skiffler this time . . .   I can't help myself, I'd just love to see -- Babe On The Block -- From Roger the skiffler (22-Jun-01) I offer this as a possible future challenge, scope for sentimental song:   (BTW the pig was saved by the judge).  The owner of a retired celebrity pig is fighting a legal battle to save him from the foot-and-mouth slaughter. Grunty, a rare Maori kune kune pig, starred in a children's television film and has his own website.  But his fame did not stop an inspector from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) from ordering him to be culled under the foot-and-mouth regulations.  Grunty's farm in Somerset was condemned because his owner had visited another of her holdings, which turned out to be infected.  Rosemary Upton, of Hill Farm, Stawley, near Wellington, Somerset, is applying for permission to seek a judicial review.   Appearing for her, Stephen Smith QC, suggested that Grunty had a much stronger case for survival than Phoenix the calf, saved after a blaze of publicity in April.  Grunty starred in Pig at the Ritz on Channel Five and in pleasanter times has accompanied Mrs. Upton on trips to the local village.

Mmmmmmmm -- this Challenge! sounds finger-licking good!!  (now where did I put that Worchester Sauce???).


Grunty the Pig by Gareth
(Tune: Gresford)

Gareth's Comments: Actually I am looking forward to seeing Phoenix The Calf again, neatly packaged and for sale in Tesco's.  BTW The tune "Gresford" is the Botany Bay Varient - not the National Union of Mineworkers funeral hymn


You've heard of the Foot 'n Mouth Disaster,
Of the terrible price on the land; ,
Millions of innocent Sheep were condemned ,
And a pig to be slain out of hand

Now Grunty was no common porker. ,
A film star, or so it was said ,
With its own dressing sty, with a star bye and bye,
And a cushion to comfort his head.

Grunty the pig had a website, ,
For New Zealand to learn of his fame, ,
And many a man had to harden his heart ,
Before he could eat pork again.

Now a fortnight before the cull order, ,
To his owner, poor Grunty cried, ,
"If you visit that farm we'll be in hell!" ,
And no one can say that he lied.

Farewell all our dear sows and piglets ,
Farewell all our comrades as well, ,
Don't send your sons to a Somerset Farm,
, They'll be doomed like the sinners in hell.

Now the Lord Judge in Bristol's deciding, ,
If Grunty should live or he dies, ,
While the Ministry man sends compensation, ,
To pay for the poor farm stock's' lives.

Still British justice must triumph, ,
A film star must be a good case, ,
It's not as if he is a working class pig ,
Destined for for the slaughtering place...

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