Noël Coward

Any Part of Piggy

  • Any part of the piggy
  • Is quite alright with me.
  • Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma
  • Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama
  • Ham from Virginia, ham from York,
  • Trotters, sausages, hot roast pork.
  • Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on
  • Bacon with or without the rind on
  • Though humanitarian
  • I'm not a vegetarian.
  • I'm neither a crank nor prude nor prig
  • And though it may sound infra dig
  • Any part of the darling pig
  • Is perfectly fine by me.
© estate of Noël Coward
Not Yet the Dodo. Doubleday, 1968.