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A traditional bluegrass tune, “Pig in a Pen” has been performed three times by Phish. It debuted on 2/21/93 as the final song of a four song encore that featured “Reverend” Jeff Mosier on banjo. (This pickin’ encore actually includes a bluegrass version of “Good Times Bad Times.”) The next appearance of “Pig in a Pen” came on 11/16/94, again featuring Jeff Mosier on banjo and vocals; Mosier would join Phish for four more shows that fall. This version includes nice solos by Mike and Fish, who was introduced as “the world’s premier bluegrass drummer.” Three nights later, after its show in Bloomington, Indiana, Phish performed this song in their "parking lot set," an acoustic bluegrass set that featured the Reverend on banjo, Eric Merrill on fiddle and guitar, and “Jeremy” on banjo and jaw harp.

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(Traditional)

I got a pig at home in a pen
Corn to feed him on
All I need's a pretty little girl
To feed I'm when I'm gone

Going up on a mountain
To sow a little cane
Raise a barrel of sorghum
Sweet little Liza Jane

Black clouds arising
Sure sign of rain
Put that old gray bonnet
On little Liza Jane

Yonder comes that gal of mine
How do you think I know
Know her by that gingham gown
Hanging down so low

Bake them biscuits baby
Bake em good and brown
When you get them biscuits baked
We're Alabama bound