Songs about ducks and geese

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: JHW
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 02:35 PM

There's a song 'These geese are Swans (and maybe) these swans are Ducks'
Swan and Duck being the surnames of the owners of said fowl.

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 07:36 PM

Mike Waterson wrote a great song about Ducks and Geese. Is that the one you mean. It was on You tube.

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Jun 19 - 01:33 PM

Um, swan. Ugly duckling was not a goose.

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Felipa
Date: 20 Jun 19 - 02:11 PM

Nead na Lachan (the ducks' nest) sung to a dance tune

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 11:57 PM

Needs some work in this season of migratory birds...

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Mar 25 - 10:18 PM

i am looking for the lyrics of the song by Mike Waterson
These Geese are swans and maybe these swans are ducks
i heard the song sung at the inishowen singing festival
i cannot find the song on the internet

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Mar 25 - 08:29 PM

I'm reminded of this old Ian Tyson song:

1967
As recorded on SO MUCH FOR DREAMING
Key F (5/C)

Wild Geese Flying By

F------------------Am
Wild geese flying by;
----------------Bb ------------------F
Calling on the downwind as they go;
C--F--------------Am
No answers they bring,
------Bb-----------------------------------C
And springtime has too many miles to flow;
Am---------F
Lone black pines,
Am----------------------Gm
Hillsides all covered in snow,
F---------------Am
Why does the wind
----------Bb-----------------------F
Say you ain’t coming back any more?


Was there a time,
When my dreams were not always of you?
The days ain’t so bad,
But each night takes so long passing through;
Down by the stream,
Fresh otter tracks in the snow;
Why does the wind
Say you ain’t coming back any more?

I’ve got a mind,
Just to ramble this whole country ‘round,
With the leaves turning green,
And the frost boiling out of the ground;
Drive through the miles,
A country I’ve never seen before;
Now that the wind
Says you ain’t coming back any more.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Sol
Date: 25 Mar 25 - 01:12 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3GwWTkVFo
One of my favourite songs.

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Sol
Date: 25 Mar 25 - 01:15 PM

Sorry. bluey link didn't transfer to post.
Should have taken you to Jim Reid's "The Wild Geese"

Subject: RE: Songs about ducks and geese
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 26 Mar 25 - 06:13 AM

From If I Were A Rich Man:

I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks
For the town to see and hear
Squawking just as noisily as they can
And each loud of the"gee", be it "gow", be it "geh", be it "guh"
Would land like a trumpet on the ear
As if to say, "Here lives a wealthy man"