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Thread #86383   Message #2929454
Posted By: Artful Codger
16-Jun-10 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: Songs about ducks and geese
Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
Can I be the first in five years to mention "Ever So Goosey"? ;-}

"The Marla Hill Ducks"

"Nancy Hogan's Goose"

"The Goose Hangs High"

"Летят утки" (Letyat utki = Russian: The ducks are flying) features both ducks and geese.

Both ducks and geese are also in the announcer's test, "One Hen, Two Ducks."

"His Taxes", about a goose-herd who wants to give the king "the biggest bird" or, failing that, give the queen "a goose," and thus got gaoled for trying to pay his taxes.

"There Was an Old Soldier":
Oh I had a little duck and he had a web foot,
And he built his nest in a mulberry bush...

"Hares on the Mountain"
Young women they swim like ducks on the water...

"Tomorrow the Fox Will Come to Town":
He'll steal the duck out of the brook...

Ducks are among the menagerie at "Jollity Farm," and they feature in "Broomsquire's Bird Song," and they have "A Place in the Choir."

"Who's the Fool Now?":
I saw the goose ring the hog...

"Put a Bit of Powder on It, Father":
Now Father, in a raffle,
Won such a lovely duck...

In frog songs, the duck may play the predator rather than the prey (for a change!) such as in "Frog in the Well" and "Tidy Ann."

Banjo Patterson's "Fur and Feathers," in Animals Noah Forgot, has a whistler duck as referee.

And, of course, there's "Peter and the Wolf".