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This tune is John Philip Sousa‘s Stars and Stripes Forever.
Lyrics
(Melody by John Philip Sousa, Lyrics Anonymous)
Be kind to your web-footed friends
For a duck may be somebody’s mother,
Be kind to your friends in the swamp
Where the weather is always damp.
You may think that this is the end,
Well it is!
See also
- Subjects: Sousa / silly / ducks / friendship
- Harmony: I IV V chords
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Source: Wee Sing Silly Songs, Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1982
- Same tune: Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
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