The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9414   Message #2220259
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Dec-07 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr req: I had a duck and that duckie died,
Subject: RE: Lyrics-I had a duck and that duckie died,
I am refreshing this old request that never got so much as a reply nearly 9 years ago.

Clk37 repeated the request a few days later (with slightly different words: "poor duckie" and "them eggs") and still got no response.

I've done a Google search and came up with nothing about a song; however, Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1840, says that putting duck eggs under a hen was a common practice.