Lyr req: I had a duck and that duckie died,

Subject: Lyrics-I had a duck and that duckie died,
From:
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 07:02 PM

I am looking for a song my Grandmother use to sing to me when I was a little girl. It went something like this: I had a duck and that little duckie died, I put her eggs under a hen and she seemed satisfied.

This is all I can remember, does anyone know the title, or where I may find the lyrics. Thank you for any help you can give me

Subject: A duck & that poor duckie die, i put-LYRICS
From:
Date: 01 Mar 99 - 08:41 AM

DOES ANYONE KNOW THE LYRICS TO THIS SONG? OR THE NAME OF IT? IT IS AN OLD SONG, MY GRANDMOTHER WHO RECENTLY PASSED AWAY USE TO SING WHEN WE WERE YOUNG. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY INFORMATION, ANYONE CAN GIVE.THANK YOU CHRISTINE

Subject: RE: Lyrics-I had a duck and that duckie died,
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 08:22 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Lyrics-I had a duck and that duckie died,
From: Peace
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 10:28 AM

Jim, I am finding some stuff when I Google

"I had a little duck", duckie, died




'I had a duck and that duckie died' doesn't really scan.

Subject: RE: Lyrics-I had a duck and that duckie died,
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 10:49 AM

The only duck thing I ever heard ended "I got a fuck for a duck, a duck for a fuck and 2 bucks for a fucked up duck!" ......or something like that.

I can't see Granny singing it, but it does scan well Bruce.......................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyrics-I had a duck and that duckie died,
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 12:25 PM

"I had a duck and the young duck died" is given as a quote from Archibald Stodart-Walker in the 1986 Poetry Index. I can't find the exact source though.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr req: I had a duck and that duckie died,
From: Snuffy
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 08:00 PM

Charlie Charlie Chuck Chuck Chuck
Went to bed with three young ducks
One duck died
Charlie cried
Charlie Charlie Chuck Chuck Chuck