Nursery Rhymes -- Tom the Piper's Son. Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, that those who heard him could never keep still; as soon as he played they began for to dance, even the pigs on their hind legs would after him dance. ... He met old Dame Trot with a basket of eggs, he used his pipe and she used her legs; she danced about till the eggs were all broke, she began for to fret, but he laughed at the joke.