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Re: LYR: "The Little White Duck" by Burl Ives

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Subject: Re: LYR: "The Little White Duck" by Burl Ives
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by: gene meshbane - Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:01 UTC

On Thursday, October 5, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Tiny Dancer wrote:
> And so the word went out from Tek <teka...@my-deja.com>:
> >Oops.. it's not Cindy the frog song, it's just The Frog Song
> Aha! Found it here after a bit of searching:
> http://www.geocities.com/ohtoad/LittleWhiteDuck.html
> It includes a midi file on the site.
> The Little White Duck
> Lyrics written by Bernard Zaritzky & Walt Barrows
> sung by Burl Ives
> There's a little white duck
> Sitting in the water
> A little white duck
> Doing what he oughter
> He took a bite of a lily pad
> Flapped his wings and he said
> "I'm glad I'm a little white duck
> Sitting in the water
> Quack! quack! quack!"
>
> There's a little green frog
> Swimming in the water
> A little green frog
> Doing what he oughter
> He jumped right off of the lily pad
> That the little duck bit and he said
> "I'm glad I'm a little green frog
> Swimming in the water
> Ribbit! ribbit! ribbit!"
>
> There's a little black bug
> Floating on the water
> A little black bug
> Doing what he oughter
> He tickled the frog on the lily pad
> That the little duck bit and he said
> "I'm glad I'm a little black bug
> Floating on the water
> Bzzz! bzzz! bzzz!"
>
> There's a little red snake
> Playing in the water
> A little red snake
> Doing what he oughter
> He frightened the duck
> And the frog so bad
> He ate the bug and he said
> "I'm glad I'm a little red snake
> Playing in the water
> Hiss! hiss! hiss!"
>
> Now there's nobody left
> Sitting in the water
> Nobody left doing what he oughter
> There's nothing left but the lily pad
> The duck and the frog ran away,
> I'm sad 'cause there's nobody left
> Sitting in the water
> Boo! hoo! hoo!
> Thanks so much. This is the first song I remember and still got most of the lyrics right. Will sing it to my grandaughters/

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