Pig Blues

Famous quotes containing the words pig and/or blues:

“To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fine hog;
Home again, home again, joggety jog.”
—Unknown. To Market, to Market, to Buy a Fat Pig (l. 1–4)

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)