Tom T. Hall – The Duck And The Rooster (Guitar)

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It'll take me a minute to tell you this rhyme

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Of the duck and the rooster that I knew one time

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A little duck hatched out a day or two late

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His mama had already gone to the lake

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The little red rooster had broken his foot

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So I put him into a little ol' coop

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The little white duck was left out on his own

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So I put them together until they were grown

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Well, the duck thought the rooster was limping and lame

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The rooster believed that the duck was the same

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And so they were pals in the coop in the barn

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They huddled together when it came a storm

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Well, the weeks they went by and the little guys grew

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The little duck quacked and the rooster cocky-dooed

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The duck loved the water and the rooster would scratch

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And neither one knew why they acted like that

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Well, one day I turned them both free on the farm

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The rooster went straight to a roost in the barn

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The little duck went to the lake for a swim

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They liked different things even though they were friends

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Well, now you should hear them when they say hello

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Though it may sound funny, I know that it's so

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I know that it's strange, but I'll tell you it's true