There Once Was an Ugly Duckling

There Once Was an Ugly Duckling - Songs For Children

There once was an ugly duckling

With feathers all stubby and brown

And the other birds in so many words said

Get out of town

Get out get out

Get out of 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

And at every place

They said to his face

Now get out of here

Get out get out

Get out of 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

Ashamed 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

Swan Me a swan

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

It's me 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

Not I

Not I