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Thread #42549 Message #620378
Posted By: Deckman
03-Jan-02 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: Ballad of the Merry Ferry -songs of the Northwest
Subject: Lyr Add: GEODUCK
This thread has inspired me to go to my files. I'm glad that I did as I just found a wonderful piece of writing that I'd forgotten. This collection of Northwest Folk Songs is titiled, "Folksongs From The Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound." It is a "Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Institute of Musical Art, Julliard School of Music." It was written by Winifred I. Knox, July 1945. In this collection are many songs that were sung in this region during the settling years. I recognise many of the songs as being fairly well known throughout the whole country at the time. However, here's a song unique to Puget Sound country.
Geoduck
It takes a lot of energy, strength and pluck
To catch the elusive geoduck
For it takes a man who's quick and strong
To catch a goeduck with a neck a foot long
A foot long, a foot long,a foot long, a foot long
For it takes a man who's quick and strong
To catch the geoduck with a neck a foot long
To catch the geoduck you grab him by the neck
And then you start to pull and you pull like heck
But if you're not feeling very strong that day
The geoduck will pull so hard he'll get away
Away, away, away, away
But if you're not feeling very strong that day
The goeduck will pull so hard he'll get away
CHEERS, Bob