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"Piggies" is a song by the Beatles, released in 1968 on their eponymous double album (commonly known as ''The White Album''). It was written by George Harrison as social commentary. ==Composition and lyrics== This song was originally written in 1966 and worked up for the White Album after Harrison found a copy of the manuscript at his parents' home in 1968.〔Walter Everett. The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press. NY. 1999. ISBN 0-19-509553-7. ISBN 0-19-512941-5 p199〕 Harrison's mother provided the line "What they need's a damn good whacking", and Lennon contributed the line "clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon."〔Walter Everett. The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press. NY. 1999. ISBN 0-19-509553-7. ISBN 0-19-512941-5 p199〕 There was an additional verse written for the song in 1968 but omitted during the actual recording. It involved the "piggies" playing "piggy pranks" to achieve its rhyming couplet of "piggy banks." Harrison reinstated this verse in all live performances of the song in the 1990s. A version can be heard on his double album ''Live in Japan''. :Yeah, everywhere there's lots of piggies :Playing piggy pranks :And you can see them on their trotters :Down at the piggy banks :Paying piggy thanks :To thee pig brother The original lyrics read "to cut their pork chops" (as heard on the ''Anthology 3'' album). Lennon created the tape loop for the pig noises that were sampled for this song. Author Walter Everett refers to the lyrics as involving an "Orwellian comparison of pigs to socially horrid though outwardly refined tyrants."〔Walter Everett. The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press. NY. 1999. ISBN 0-19-509553-7. ISBN 0-19-512941-5 p199〕 Pink Floyd (who were working on ''A Saucerful of Secrets'' at the same time), later released ''Animals'' in 1977, also about Orwell's social comparisons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piggies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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