Quack 'N Honk ~ Ugly Ducklings

Recalling an absolute favorite film today. Hans Christian Andersen from 1952, starring Danny Kaye. When a rousing rendition of the Hokey Pokey fails to cheer our bluesy blah-zay moments ... a song or two from the wise and understated Frank Loesser lyrics will do! Danny Kaye portrayed the Storyteller "Hans" with an indelible brilliance and empathy that remains unmatched. This is for all of our "special" little ducks who have yet to discover that even brown stubby-feathered ducklings have a marvelous beauty. Doesn't matter if they're ducklings or swans still covered. Some of us will always physically appear as brown stubby-feathered ducklings. When we shine from the inside out, we can move mountains. This is for us too!








There once was an ugly duckling
With feathers all stubby and brown
And the other birds said in so many words
Get out of town
Get out, get out,
get out of town

And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
In a flurry of eiderdown
That poor little ugly duckling
Went wandering far and near
But at every place they said to his face
Now get out, get out,
get out of here

And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
And a very unhappy tear
All through the wintertime he hid himself away
Ashamed to show his face, afraid of what others might say
All through the winter in his lonely clump of wheat
Till a flock of swans spied him there and very soon agreed
You’re a very fine swan indeed!
A swan? Me a swan? Ah, go on!

And he said yes, you’re a swan
Take a look at yourself in the lake and you’ll see
And he looked, and he saw, and he said I am a swan!
Wheeeeeeee! I’m not such an ugly duckling
No feathers all stubby and brown
For in fact these birds in so many words said
The best in town, the best,
the best The best in town

Not a quack, not a quack, not a waddle or a quack
But a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back
And a head so noble and high
Say who’s an ugly duckling?
Not I!
Not I!

Best Quotes:

Hans: "Did you ever hear the story of the old woman who shook her head at the family so much that one night it fell off? Right on the dinner table."

"You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a mustache."