The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling (醜小鴨) - Gracie Fields

There once was an ugly duckling

With feathers all stubby and brown

And the other birds in so many words said

Quack get out to town

Quack get out quack quack

Get out quack quack get out to town

And he went with a quack

And a waddle and a quack

In a flurry of eiderdown

That poor little ugly duckling

Went wandering far and near

But every place they said to his face

Quack get out to here

Quack get out quack quack

Get out quack quack get out to here

And he went with a quack

And a waddle and a quack

And a very unhappy tear

All through the wintertime he hid himself away

Afraid to show his face

Afraid of what others might say

All through the winter in his lonely clump of wheat

Till a flock of swans spied him there

And very soon agreed

You're a very fine swan indeed

And he looked and he saw and he said

I'm not such an ugly duckling

No feathers all stubby and brown

But in fact these birds in so many words said

Quack 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 not I