lyr/chords: Rubber Duckie (from Sesame Street)

Subject: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: wilco
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 01:35 PM

My grandson (age 4) tells me that I don't have the chords right for
"Rubber Duckie". (He is such a know-it-all).

(D)Rubber Duckie (G) your the one.
(D) You make bathtime (A) lots of fun.
(D) Rubber Duckie, I'm (A) awfully fond of (D) you.
(A) wwo woo bee dah do.

(G) Everyday, when I make my way to the (D) tubby.
I find a (E) little fella who's cute and yellow and (A) chubby.
(D) rub a duba dubby!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: SharonA
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 02:01 PM

Sorry, Wilco, but your grandson is right!

Maybe I can look up the proper chords for you later – no time right now – if someone else doesn't beat me to it in the meantime. But the chords you posted are definitely not correct!!

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: RUBBER DUCKIE (Jeff Moss)
From: MMario
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 02:08 PM

Rubber Duckie

Sesame Street
Words and Music by Jeffrey Moss


Bb    Bdim    Cm7       F7
Rubber Duckie, you're the one,
Bb          Bb7+5 Eb      Ebm6
you make bathtime lots of fun
Bb/D    Gm7       Cm7       F7    Bb Gm7 Cm7
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you,
       F7      
Vo, vo, dee-oh.
Bb    Bdim    Cm7    F7
Rubber Duckie, joy of joys,
Bb            Bb7+5 Eb      Ebm6
When I sqeeze you, you make noise.
Bb/D   Gm7               Cm7       F7          Bb   Em7-5
Rubber Duckie, you're my very best friend it's true
A7 Dm               A7                  Dm
Oh, ev'ry day when I make my way to the tubby
Bbm F/C                Gm7/C                Cm7    F7
I find a little fellow who's cute and yellow and chubby,
Bb    Bdim    Cm7       F7
Rubber Duckie, you're so fine,
Bb      B7-5   Eb         Ebm6
and I'm lucky that you're mine.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: MMario
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 02:11 PM

from here

http://www.jauko.nl/tot/tab/t/themes/rubber_d.htm

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: Genie
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 03:55 PM

Thanks, folks! Being just a tad too old to have learned this as a child, I've been wanting those lyrics and chords. I love the song!

Genie

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: wilco
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 11:36 AM

Thanks. the big problem here is that my rubber duckie can't sing along in all of these minor and diminished chords. Plus, we sometimes sing it under water in the tubbie, and I have trouble getting these tough guitar chords right under water. For the typical semi-literate, guitar player, what would work in major chords and 7th chords. I want to teach this to lots of kids, and the chords have to be simple. AND, PLEASE!!!!! Don't anyone tell my little know-it-all grandson that his grandpappy whodo was wrong on this.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: RUBBER DUCKIE (Jeff Moss)
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 12:44 PM

I'll post a simplified version, but it does involve some minor chords. Hope that's okay...


Rubber Ducky (simplified chords)

G            Em    Am            D
Rubber Ducky, you're the one,
G             G7          C       Cm
you make bathtime lots of fun
G          Em            Am      D          Bm Em    Am                   D    
Rubber Ducky, I'm awfully fond of you..........Vo, vo, dee-oh.

G           Em      Am   D
Rubber Ducky, joy of joys
G          G7                  C             Cm
When I squeeze you, you make noise.
G           Em                      Am         D             G    C G
Rubber Ducky, you're my very best friend it's true

F#m    Bm                      Em          F#m          Bm
Oh.......ev'ry day when I make my way to the tubby
D                                     G          A                D
I find a little fellow who's cute and yellow and chubby,
D7
Rub-a-dub-a-dubby!


G            Em       Am         D
Rubber Duckie, you're so fine,
G          G7    C                Cm
and I'm lucky that you're mine.
G            Em            Am      D
Rubber ducky, I'm awfully fond of -
G            Em          Am               D
Rubber ducky, I'd like a whole pond of -
G            Em            Am     D          G
Rubber ducky I'm awfully fond of you!


BTW, here's a page with the lyrics and a MIDI (caution: MIDI plays automatically upon opening the page): http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/rubberducky.htm

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 12:47 PM

Oops! Sorry; the chord above the word "tubby" should be a Bm (B minor) chord. (I previewed the post before I submitted, and I still missed that boo-boo!)

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Correction noted and change made.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 01:32 PM

Thank you, Joe!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: wilco
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 02:51 PM

THANKS!!!! Wilco in Tennessee

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 04:57 PM

With all due repect to Mr. Jeffrey Moss, KIDS' SONGS JUST SHOULDN'T BE THAT #@&%#@ COMPLICATED! Ya write a song fer a kiddie show knowin' full well that every time anyone in the world picks up a guitar in front of a kid the kid's gonna want 'em to play that song. And then ya go and make it so complicated that 95% of the guitar players in the world couldn't play it if their lives depended on it. Thank God for sensible people like SharonA who dummy it up enough that real parents and grandparents can play the thing.

Now, where'd that kid go?

Bruce

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 05:12 PM

If a Joe Clone would be so kind as to close the BOLD after the word "complicated" on the above post, I would appreciate it. Apoligies for the inconvenience.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: SharonA
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 01:22 PM

This song has been running through my head since last Friday... and I don't even HAVE kids, let alone grandkids!! Aaaauuuugggghhhh!!!! *G*

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: MMario
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 01:26 PM

"Rubber Duckie" is a mindworm...; as are many of the Sesame Street songs - one of the many reasons the show is successful. I don't know if it was deliberate or not - but not unexpected.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 02:04 PM

"95% of the guitar players in the world couldn't play it"

So you think that your inability is reflective or the majority?

Bold... I suspect you're incorrect, but bold none the less...

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 11:28 PM

Start the kid on an instrument - he has the ear.

Wilco48 - I think you did a bang-up job of turning it into a I,IV,V....throw an A7 at the fond of and your can probably slide it past your critic.

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street
From: wilco
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:17 PM

Gargoyle. Thanks for the compliment. I knew that you were the kind of person that loved rubber duckies too.

Subject: ADD: Rubber Duckie (Jeff Moss)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Nov 15 - 12:13 AM

It's nice to have chords, and it's nice to have that German foolishness in that other thread, but it's also nice to have verified, authentic lyrics. Here they are, in all their glory:

RUBBER DUCKIE
(Jeff Moss)

Rubber Duckie, you're the one!
You make bath time lots of fun.
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you;
(voh voh voh, dee oh!)

Rubber Duckie, joy of joys,
When I squeeze you, you make noise!
Rubber Duckie, you're my very best friend, it's true!

CHORUS
Oh, every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who's
Cute and yella and chubby
(rub-a-dub-dubby!)

Rubber Duckie, you're so fine,
And I'm lucky that you're mine.
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you.

CHORUS

Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber Duckie, I'd like a whole pond of -
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you!
(doo doo, be doo.)

© 1970 Festival Attractions, Inc. Copyright renewed. Sung by Ernie (voiced by Jim Henson)

http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/theshow/watch/classicclips#ff3ce886-1558-11dd-a62f-919b98326687