Wild Hog in the Woods- Plemmons (D.C.) 1962
[Source: Fiddler's Companion; Kuntz. This version was collected and recorded from the same informant in 1932 when she went to Radford Teachers College by Davis, version DD. It begins:
There's a wild hog in these woods,
Diddle o down, diddle o day,
There's a wild hog in these woods,
Diddle o down today,
This is a wild hog in these woods
That kills men and sucks their blood,
Kill him tell, cut him down, kill him if you can.
R. Matteson 2014]
WILD HOG IN THE WOODS- collected by Henry Galssie in 1962 from Mrs. Ruby Bowman Plemmons (Washington, D.C.), who learned them from her mother who lived in Laurel Fork, southwestern Va.
There is a wild hog in yonders woods
(diddle on down, diddle on day)
There is a wild hog in yonders woods
(diddle on down the day)
There is a wild hog in these woods,
That eats men and seeks their blood.
(Cut him down, cut him down, kill him if you can).
There comes a wild hog through yonders *mash
Splitting his way through oaks and ash.
We followed that wild hog to his den,
Found the bones of a thousand men.
We followed that wild hog day and night,
Swore we'd make that wild hog fight.
We killed that hog with sticks and knife,
Swore we'd take that wild hog's life.
* The "mast" is fruit or nuts, usually after it's fallen from the tree. It usually means a part of the forest that has lots of acorns.