High life
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse,
Always having dirt to play around in
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt,
Always have clean shirts to play around in
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
One more time
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse,
Always having dirt to play around in
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt,
Always have clean shirts to play around in
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
One more time
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from iamthebeatles.com
BrainDamage is right about the Manson murders. Also I think it was the Tate murder that they wrote in blood on the wall "Political Piggy" to make it look like a group like the Black Panthers had actually done the murder. The song is about dirty politicians. People often confuse the term 'Pig' a derogatory term for a police officer with the term 'Piggy' a term for a corrupt politician. Easily mistaken. The fact that the politicians are 'Piggies' in this song and the line 'Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon' would mean that intern the politicians were cannibals. But in the '60s it was more commonly believed that politicians were (in a way) kind of like cannibals, because they kill their own species for their own benefit. This wasn't actually an idea in the '60s but I think it's close to the '60s way of viewing corrupt government officials.