The Ugly Duckling (Original First Recording Remastered)-Danny Kaye/The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra

[ti:The Ugly Duckling] [ar:Danny Kaye] [al:Danny Kaye Selected Favorites ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ugly Duckling (Original First Recording Remastered) - Danny Kaye/The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra [00:04.09]Written by：Danny Kaye [00:08.18]There once was an ugly duckling [00:11.12] [00:11.81]With feathers all stubby and brown [00:15.06]And the other birds said in so many words [00:18.93]Get out of town [00:21.74] [00:23.56]Get out get out get out of town [00:28.56] [00:29.56]And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack [00:33.18]In a flurry of eiderdown [00:36.39] [00:44.15]That poor little ugly duckling [00:47.71]Went wandering far and near [00:51.65]But at every place they said to his face [00:55.46]Now get out get out get out of here [01:04.21] [01:06.34]And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack [01:09.90]And a very unhappy tear [01:12.03] [01:21.62]All through the wintertime he hid himself away [01:25.48] [01:26.31]Ashamed to show his face afraid of what others might say [01:31.75]All through the winter in his lonely clump of wheat [01:36.56] [01:37.50]Till a flock of swans spied him there and very soon agreed [01:42.13] [01:43.06]You're a very fine swan indeed [01:49.13] [01:50.44]A swan Me a swan Ah go on [01:55.25]And he said yes you're a swan [01:57.55]Take a look at yourself in the lake and you'll see [02:00.80]And he looked and he saw and he said [02:02.93]I am a swan Wheeeeeeee [02:07.56] [02:08.93]I'm not such an ugly duckling [02:11.18] [02:11.93]No feathers all stubby and brown [02:15.31]For in fact these birds in so many words said [02:19.50]The best in town the best the best [02:26.56] [02:27.25]The best in town [02:29.75]Not a quack not a quack not a waddle or a quack [02:33.56]But a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back [02:37.75] [02:39.88]And a head so noble and high [02:44.34] [02:47.28]Say who's an ugly duckling [02:51.66] [02:52.47]Not I [02:53.78] [02:56.03]Not I