Is there something about clams that demands an indelicate name? The better they taste, the worse the name. I've been trying to think of another interesting variety of clams since this thread took a turn toward the geoducks. Quahog is the variety I was thinking of - also spelled quahaug and quohog. Any songs that mention any clam varieties by name? We could have the Quahog Calypso, and the Geoduck Squat, or something...

Geoduck

You can hear the diggers say as they head out for the bay,

“Oh I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day.

For I get a buck a duck if I dig a duck a day,

So I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day.

Chorus:

Dig a duck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck,
Dig a duck, dig a geoduck, dig a duck a day.
Dig a duck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck,
Dig a duck, dig a geoduck, dig a duck a day.

Well it takes a lot a luck and a certain kind of pluck

Just to dig around the muck just to get a geoduck.

For he hasn’t got a front, and he hasn’t got a back,

And he doesn’t know Donald and he doesn’t go QUACK!

Stolen from here (click).
For more interesting information, see The Geoduck Page and, more appetizingly, Jamestown Seafood.

-Joe Offer-