To market, to buy a fat pig
- To market, to buy a fat pig
To market, to buy a fat pig is a nursery rhyme. [cite book | title = The Boyd Smith Mother Goose | first = Lawrence | last= Elmendorf | year = 1919 | publisher = G.P. Putnam's Sons ]
:"To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,":"Home again, home again, jiggety-jig."
:"To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,":"Home again, home again, jiggety-jog."
:"To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,":"Home again, home again, market is done."
There have been many variations such as this reworking [cite book | title = Extraordinary Nursery Rhymes and Tales: New Yet Old | year = 1876 | publisher = Griffith and Farran ] :
:"To market, to market, to buy a fat pig!":"Home with it! home with it! jiggety jig!"
:"Stuff it till Christmas and make a fat hog,":"Then at Smithfield Show win a prize, jiggety jog!"
Literary references
The rhyme was used to provide the structure and title for the novel Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset. [citation|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/3507884|title=Passing in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen|author=Mary Conde|journal=The Yearbook of English Studies|Volume=24|year=1994|pages=94-104]
PBS made a documentary, "To market, to market, to buy a fat pig" about markets for fresh produce which premiered in 2007. [citation|url=http://www.pbs.org/previews/tomarket-tomarket/|title=To market to market to buy a fat pig|accessdate=19 July 2008]
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