THE UGLY DUCKLING- DANNY KAYE - Lyrics Writers * ANDERSON, FRANK LOESSER Genre * 1950'S HITS Producer * Derek Miller
======================================================= There once was an ug-ly duck-ling With feath-ers all stub-by and brown And the oth-er birds said in so man-y words cluck
Get out of town cluck Get out, cluck cluck get out, cluck cluck get out of town And he went with a quack and a wad-dle and a quack In a flur-ry of ei-der-down
That poor lit-tle ug-ly duck-ling Went wan-der-ing f-ar and near But at eve-ry place they said to his face
Now cluck get out of here, cluck get out, cluck cluck get out, cluck cluck get out of here And he went with a quack and a wad-dle and a quack And a ver-y un-hap-py tear
And he went with a quack and a wad-dle and a quack And a ver-y un-hap-py tear
All through the win-ter-ti-me he hid him-self aw-ay A-shamed to show his face, a-fraid of what others might say All through the win-ter in his lone-ly clump of wheat Till a flock of swans spied him there and ver-y soon a-greed
You�re a ver-y fi-ne swan in-deed!
(Spoken) A swan? Me a swan? Ah, go on! And he said yes, 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 I am a swan! Whee!
I�m not such an ugly duckling No feathers all stubby and brown For in fact these birds in so many words said The best in town, the best, the best 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?