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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son is a nursery rhyme. The rhyme is featured in Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera, The Turn of the Screw. The two children, Miles and Flora, sing it in Act I, scene 5, at the window.
The 'pig' mentioned in the song is almost certainly not a live animal but rather a kind of pastry, often made with an apple filling, smaller than a pie.
- Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
- Stole a pig, and away did run.
- The pig was eat,
- And Tom was beat,
- And Tom went crying (or roaring, or howling, in some versions)
- Down the street.
In Popular Culture
- The 1969 experimental film, "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son", by Ken Jacobs, consists of retouched footage of a 1905 film of the same name. It was placed on the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2007.
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