The Ugly Little Duck Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][G]
[A][D]

[Verse 1]
It was glorious [D]in
the country
There were plants
They were yellow and green
[G]And the stork was speaking Egy[A]ptian
For Egyptian his mummy had [D]been
'Neath a [F#m]burdock tree sat

[Verse 2]
a mother
Sat and sat, that her chil
[D]dren would [Em]hatch
Which they did, mostly but one [A]other
The big round one, that just didn't match
It [D]seemed to take forever

[Verse 3]
[D]One unhappy day [A]came
the [D]duckling
Though his egg had
been faithfully [G]warmed
He was so [A]much larger than average
He could best be described
as [D]de formed

[Verse 4]
He was [F#m]much too gray and too fluffy
As the other ducks loudly [Em]opined
When he cried, they said
"Don't get [A]huffy,
you can keep on living
We don't mind,
it's just [D]that you're so ugly"

[Verse 5]
So he [D]left early in the morning
But he found wherever
he would [G]roam
That despite some changes
in the [A]scenery
Everyone was as vile as at [D]home

[Verse 6]
As he [F#m]settled in for the winter
Overhead flew a flock of such [Em]birds
That his vision stuck [A]like a spinter
They were all too beautiful for words
[D]That winter was freezing

[Verse 7]
I can't [D]tell you how much
he suffered
This description will have to suf[G]fice
He was paddling round the [A]lake, when
His poor feet were frozen in the [D]ice

[Verse 8]
When it [F#m]snowed again, he was buried
Then it snowed some more over
his [Em]head
There he sat, too cold to be [A]worried
Truth to tell, he just thought he was dead
He [D]didn't mind that one bit

[Verse 9]
But the [D]spring was here
and a thaw came
Our half dead little hero sur[G]vived
And the daf[A]fodil and the crocus
Sang aloud, "One more spring
has [D]ar rived"

[Verse 10]
And the [F#m]lovely birds gathered
'round him
He was nuzzled and doted [Em]upon
Then he knew his family had
[A]found him
He'd become the

[Verse 11]
most beautiful swan
[D]"I never dreamed of such
amazing luck
When [D]I was just an ugly little duck"