The Pigworker Releases Gigs Lyrics

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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 98 times, most recently at The Bowery Ballroom on December 28, 2024. He first performed it at Alma on November 13, 1977, 47 years and 1 month earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Album 1979
The Day They Ate Brick The Soft Boys Polarad Electronics Corporation Bootleg 1987
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Album 1993
Where Are The Prawns? The Soft Boys Fan Club release 1994
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/13/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/15/1977
London School of Economics (LSE) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/18/1977
St John's Pythagoras Room Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 11/24/1977
Jesus College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/29/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/01/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/07/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 01/20/1978
Pembroke College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/28/1978
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/04/1978
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/05/1978
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 02/11/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/13/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/14/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/20/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/21/1978
Winchester Art School The Soft Boys Winchester England UK 02/24/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 02/26/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/27/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/28/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 03/09/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 03/29/1978
Elms Court (Oxford Elm Park Centre) The Soft Boys Botley England UK 04/01/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 04/02/1978
Rainbow Theatre The Soft Boys London England UK 04/08/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 04/15/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 04/21/1978
Alex Wood Hall Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 04/29/1978
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/05/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 05/06/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 05/07/1978
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 05/13/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 05/14/1978
Marquee The Soft Boys London England UK 05/25/1978
Nags Head The Soft Boys High Wycombe England UK 05/27/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys Middlesbrough England UK 06/02/1978
Tiffany's The Soft Boys Edinburgh Scotland UK 06/05/1978
Stowaway Club The Soft Boys Newport Wales UK 06/07/1978
Roots / F Club The Soft Boys Leeds England UK 06/08/1978
Rafters The Soft Boys Manchester England UK 06/09/1978
Portsmouth Polytechnic The Soft Boys Portsmouth England UK 06/17/1978
Marquee The Soft Boys London England UK 06/18/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 07/02/1978
Hope & Anchor Leppo & the Jooves London England UK 08/26/1978
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 08/28/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 09/15/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/06/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 10/14/1978
77 Club The Soft Boys Nuneaton England UK 10/17/1978
London College of Printing The Soft Boys London England UK 10/19/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/20/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 10/27/1978
Downing College, Cambridge University The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 11/11/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 11/16/1978
Leicester University The Soft Boys Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
Eric's The Soft Boys Liverpool England UK 11/25/1978
Lady Mitchell Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 12/08/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 12/22/1978
Corn Exchange (Heads) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/23/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 01/11/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 01/12/1979
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 01/20/1979
Sidney Sussex College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/26/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/02/1979
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/03/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 03/03/1979
UCL (University College London) The Soft Boys London England UK 03/05/1979
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 03/10/1979
University of East Anglia The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 04/27/1979
Canterbury College of Art The Soft Boys Canterbury England UK 05/01/1979
Pop Club The Soft Boys York England UK 05/02/1979
Boogie House The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 05/03/1979
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/04/1979
Newcastle Polytechnic The Soft Boys Newcastle upon Tyne England UK 05/06/1979
Huddersfield Polytechnic The Soft Boys Huddersfield England UK 05/08/1979
Reading University The Soft Boys Reading England UK 05/09/1979
Warwick University The Soft Boys Coventry England UK 05/12/1979
Woods The Soft Boys Plymouth England UK 05/16/1979
Routes The Soft Boys Exeter England UK 05/17/1979
Tiffany's The Soft Boys Edinburgh Scotland UK 05/22/1979
Norbreck Castle Hotel The Soft Boys Blackpool England UK 05/23/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 06/02/1979
Powerhaus The Soft Boys London England UK 10/17/1992
Astoria The Soft Boys London England UK 01/13/1994
The Concorde The Soft Boys Brighton England UK 01/14/1994
Astoria The Soft Boys London England UK 01/15/1994
Corn Exchange The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/17/1994
The Bull & Gate Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Kentish Town England UK 03/09/1994
Fleece and Firkin Robyn Hitchcock Bristol England UK 12/02/2004
Komedia Robyn Hitchcock and the Final Groove Brighton England UK 12/06/2004
Green Dragon Hotel Robyn Hitchcock Hereford England UK 12/21/2008
Village Underground - Robyn Retrospective Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 02/28/2013
The Tote Robyn Hitchcock's New Melbournian Softest of the Soft Boys Melbourne Victoria Australia 12/20/2016
Southbank Centre - Queen Elizabeth Hall Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 03/19/2022
EartH Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 09/14/2024
The Bowery Ballroom Robyn Hitchcock, Morris Windsor, Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry New York New York US 12/28/2024

Lyrics

Well, Crowbar Joe was one of the brotherhood
One of the brotherhood of hoods in the neighborhood
Hoods in the holiday camp, heads in the basket box

Well, J.J. Loomis had a dozen legs
He come sliding out there when you least expect him
And Crowbar Joe was a sacred pair
'Cause the one would hack as the other would loom

I'm a pigworker mama
Pigworker mama
Pigworker mama gonna work my pig on you

Pigworker mama
Pigworker mama
Pigworker mama gonna work my pig on you

So the Pterodactyl wore a hood of leather
And he opened everybody, even Heather
With her foaming roses and broken hair
She was all used up