Wellington Sheep Farm by mousethief


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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???).

Wellington Sheep Farm by mousethief
(Tune:   Wolverton Mountain)

They said don't go to Wellington Sheep Farm
Cos it's infected with hoof-and-mouth
You'll track it back all over your gumboots
Back to your hog farm, a few miles south

Her tender pig (her tender pig) brings lots of money
But Rosemary's gumboots infected his hay
The Government inspec-tor came to see him
And said that Grunty must die this day

But Grunty's not an ordinary piggy
He's an actor and a millionaire
So Rosemary took the case to the law-court
And hoped to save her Grunty there

Her tender pig (her tender pig) brings lots of money
But Rosemary's gumboots infected his hay
The Governmental judge will try his court case
And say if Grunty must die this day

Now she's back home at Wellington Sheep Farm
And her piggy is safe and sound
They couldn't let him face the death squad
When he's worth ten million pounds

Her tender pig (her tender pig) brings lots of money
And though her gumboots had touched his hay
The Governmental tax-man has more clout than
The hog inspector, any old day.

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