The Ugly Little Duck-Stephin Merritt

[ti:The Ugly Little Duck] [ar:Stephin Merritt] [al:Showtunes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ugly Little Duck - Stephin Merritt [00:15.36]It was glorious in the country [00:17.99] [00:19.03]There were plants [00:20.32]They were yellow and green [00:21.76] [00:22.44]And the stork was speaking egyptian [00:25.65] [00:26.18]For egyptian his mummy had been [00:29.03] [00:30.06]'Neath a burdock tree sat a mother [00:33.01] [00:33.64]Sat and sat that her children would hatch [00:36.82] [00:37.36]Which they did mostly but one other [00:40.36] [00:41.48]The big round one that just didn't match [00:44.49] [00:45.50]It seemed to take forever [00:51.66] [00:53.45]One unhappy day came the duckling [00:56.56] [00:57.61]Though his egg had been faithfully warmed [01:00.53] [01:01.20]He was so much larger than average [01:04.47] [01:05.15]He could best be described as deformed [01:08.03] [01:08.87]He was much too gray and too fluffy [01:11.75] [01:12.74]As the other ducks loudly opined [01:15.59] [01:16.30]When he cried they said: [01:18.62]"don't get huffy [01:19.99]You can keep on living we don't mind [01:23.89]It's just that you're so ugly " [01:29.94] [01:31.25]So he left early in the morning [01:34.67] [01:35.72]But he found wherever he would roam [01:38.60] [01:39.37]That despite some changes in the sceenry [01:42.63] [01:43.26]Everyone was as vile as at home [01:47.03]As he settled in for the winter [01:49.98] [01:50.85]Overhead flew a flock of such birds [01:53.60] [01:54.38]That his vision stuck like a spinter [01:57.37] [01:58.23]They were all too beautiful for words [02:01.45] [02:02.77]That winter it was freezing [02:07.76] [02:10.98]I can't tell you how much he suffered [02:14.01] [02:14.74]This descirpiton will have to suffice: [02:17.28] [02:18.34]He was paddling round the lake when [02:22.12]His poor feet were frozen in the ice [02:24.82] [02:25.64]When it snowed again he was buried [02:28.68] [02:29.37]Then it snowed some more over his head [02:32.07] [02:33.22]There he sat too cold to be worried [02:35.94] [02:36.86]Truth to tell he just thought he was dead [02:39.89] [02:41.07]He didn't mind that one bit [02:45.89] [02:48.74]But the spring was here and a thaw came [02:51.85] [02:52.48]Our half-dead little hero survived [02:54.83] [02:56.11]And the daffodil and the crocus [02:58.94] [02:59.70]Sang aloud: "one more spring has arrived " [03:02.88] [03:03.59]And the lovely birds gathered round him [03:07.16]He was nuzzled and doted upon [03:09.88] [03:10.81]Then he knew his family had found him [03:13.87] [03:14.50]He'd become the most beautiful swan [03:17.86] [03:19.10]"I never dreamed of such amazing luck [03:27.67]When I was just an ugly little duck "