The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86383   Message #2719920
Posted By: MGM·Lion
09-Sep-09 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Songs about ducks and geese
Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
Only one mention above from unnamed GUEST of 'Be Kind to your Web-footed Friends'. To be more specific: Students song sung to tune of Sousa's Stars n Stripes 4ever:

Be kind to your web-footed friends,
For a duck may be somebody's mother.
They live in the middle of a swamp,
Where it's always cold and damp.
Well you may think that this is the end.
Well, it is —"

We used in my far·off youth to sing it interminably when queuing for Last Night Of The Proms at the back of the Albert Hall [c 1946-47]. For some reason it used to keep us amused...