The Ugly Duckling 1951 Hans Christian Anderson

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 Oct 2004

There once was an ugly duckling
with feathers all stubby and brown,
and the other birds, in so many words,
said: "Quack! Get out of town!
Quack! Get out, Quack! Quack!
get out, Quack! Quack!
get out of town!"
And he went with a quack
and a waddle and a quack,
in a flurry of eider down.

That poor little ugly duckling
went wandering far and near,
but at every place
they said to his face:
"Now, Quack! Get out of town!
Quack! Get out, Quack! Quack!
Get out. Quack! Quack!
Get out of town!"
And he went with a quack
and a waddle and a quack,
and a very unhappy tear.

All through the winter time
he hid himself away,
ashamed to show his face,
afraid of what others might say,
all through the winter,
in his lonely clump of weed,
till a flock of swans spied him there
and very soon agreed:
"You're a very fine swan indeed!"

[spoken:] Swan? Me a swan?
Aw go on!"
"You're a swan"
Take a look at yourself in the lake
and you'll see!"
And he looked
and he saw,
and he said:
"Why, it's me! I am a swan"
Whee!

[Sing:] I'm not such an ugly duckling,
no feathers all stubby and brown.
For in fact, these birds,
in so many words, said:
"Tsk! the best in town!
Tsk! The best Tsk! Tsk!
the best Tsk! Tsk! the best in town!"

Not a quack, not a quack,
not a waddle or a quack,
but a glide and a whistle
and a snowy white back
and a head so noble and high!
"Say, who's an ugly duckling?
Not I!"

"Not I!"

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The Ugly Duckling 1951
from "Hans Christian Anderson"
Words and Music by Frank Loesser
© 1951 & 1952 by Frank Music Corp.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 21 October 2004 at 22.08
in association with Doug Grierson
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