Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - China Pig Lyrics
I don't wanna kill my china pig
No I don't
Uh man's gotta live
Uh man's gotta eat
Uh man's gotta have shoes to walk out on the street
I don't wanna kill my china pig
Well he was uh baby I want yuh to see
I don't wanna kill my china pig
Well I used to go to school
With a little red box
And I used to have my pig go with me
We'd walked for blocks
I don't wanna kill my china pig
It's glazed
He's got a slot in his back, flowers grow
My china pig be uh, quite a show
I don't wanna kill my china pig, woah no
I got him by the snout
And I takes him by the cuff
And I whipped out my fork
And I poked at him
Three hairs laid out on my floor
I remember my china pig
I fed the neighborhood
It was a big neighborhood
A lot of people liked my pig
One little girl used to put her fingers in his snout
I put a fork in his back
I didn't wanna kill my china pig
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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band China Pig Comments
A piggy bank. I robbed mine.
FREE HONGKONG CHINAPIG IS ASSHOE
Is the China pig as fast and bulbous as the octofish?
This person is asking the real questions
Did anyone else notice when the song suddenly sped up at 3:52?
The white stripes covered this song
I use to go to school with a little red box
I used to have my pig go with me, we walked for Blocks!
The weird thing is that this is the least weird song from Trout Mask Replica.
Moonlight on Vermont dude.
hair pie bake 2 and sweet sweet bulbs and veterans day poppy beg to differ
This is probably the closest to a full-blown blue song on the album but the more normal songs in my opinion is Moonlight in Vermont
Very stong echoes of two of Beefheart two biggest influences on this song, i.e. John Lee Hooker and Howlin Wolf...
In other words "the only listenable track on the album"
avantgarde neo-dadaistic americana with a splash of spike jones and drenched in a lysergic maze of psychedelic-freakblues cacophonies mixed in a pool of schizoidal parodies.
Miguel Lopez yes
You're definitely right about some Spike Jones influence in here talk about some silly shit
Shut up!
Jeff C. or Bill H. on guitar? Brilliant blues.
Doug Moon
Yeah, I’m learning it right now. It’s a bitch. Gotta use steel tip picks on a guitar. Lots of finger plucking
Some good Blues right here
the maymay
Am I the only one that hears the subtle bass every now and then? It makes me feel like the song keeps moving
That'd be Doug Jones' masterful blues guitar shining through. Definitely a blues classic
You’re impossible
what did he mean by this
the world doesnt wanna know
What are you doing YouTube is illegal
you shit head
fuck you
I am sure there is a message buried deep in this song.
any luck finding it yet?
it's a cry for help hahahahahaha
Its about forsaking your pride and virtue in the name of money.
@David Carpenter yeah but he has to for money, so greed is the underlying message.
Not greed, just desperation. After all, "A man's got to live, a man's got to eat, a man's gotta have shoes to walk down on the street."
I would have liked to walk around the block with Don and his china pig. Life long fan going back to 72.
This was improvised
why you always lying?
except this tune
Yeah, this was pretty much the only song on the album that was improvised. Featuring doug moon, a previous guitarist for the magic band.
Do one of those ba chk ch chk ch chk
Albin Lundholm this was. This is the only track that was improvised.
so fucking good!!!!
Michael Forbes
Yea !!!
Yes, that's right The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous.
Bulbous also tapered
also, a tin teardrop
That's right.
@Matt Top You've got to wait until I say "also, a tin teardrop"
beefheart fan since 1965