The Ugly Duckling chords by Frank Loesser

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

🎸 Intro:

 C majorC  G+G  A minorAm G+G D7D7 G+G


🎸 Verse 1:
G#dimG#dim  A minorAm     D7D7  G+G   G#dimG#dim
There once was an ugly duckling
    A minorAm     D7D7  G+G   G#dimG#dim
With feathers all stubby and brown
     A minorAm  D7D7+5  G+G   F7F7  FdimFdim
And the other birds in so many words  said
  C majorC     B7B7   E minorEm  G7G7
"Quack!" get out of town
  C majorC
"Quack!" get out
  C minorCm  G+G
"Quack! Quack! get out
  E minorEm  A minorAm    D7sus4D7sus4 D7D7  G+G
"Quack! Quack! get  out  of  town
    C majorC      G+G       A minorAm      G+G
And he went with a "quack." and a waddle and a "quack"
    D7D7     G+G
In a flurry of Eiderdown

C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G D7D7 G+G

🎸 Verse 2:
G#dimG#dim  A minorAm     D7D7  G+G   G#dimG#dim
That  poor little ugly duckling
     A minorAm  D7D7   G+G  G#dimG#dim
Went wandering far and near
     A minorAm  D7D7    G+G   F7F7  FdimFdim
But at every place they said to his face  NOW
  C majorC     B7B7   E minorEm  G7G7
"Quack!" get out of here
  C majorC
"Quack!" get out
  C minorCm  G+G
"Quack! Quack! get out
  E minorEm  A minorAm    D7sus4D7sus4 D7D7  G+G
"Quack! Quack! get  out  of here
    C majorC      G+G       A minorAm      G+G
And he went with a "quack." and a waddle and a "quack"
    D7D7      G+G
and a very unhappy tear.


C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G D7D7 G+G

🎸 Bridge:
D MajorD        C majorC       D MajorD      C majorC
All through the winter time he hid hiself away.
   D MajorD        C majorC
Ashamed to show his face
  D MajorD       A7A7     D MajorD   A7A7+
Afraid of what others might say.
D MajorD   C majorC    D MajorD  C majorC    D MajorD   C majorC    D MajorD   A7A7
All thru the winter in his lonely clump of weed.
     D MajorD       D7-9              Cm6Cm6
Till a flock of swans spied him there and very soon agreed
      D MajorD    Am7Am7  D MajorD
You're a very find swan indeed!

🎸 Verse 3:
G#dimG#dim  A minorAm      D7D7  G+G   G#dimG#dim
I'm   not such an ugly duckling
   A minorAm     D7D7   G+G   G#dimG#dim
No feathers all stubby and brown
     A minorAm    D7-5   G+G    F7F7  FdimFdim
For in fact these birds, in so many words said
  C majorC     B7B7   E minorEm   G7G7
"Tsk!" The best in town
  C majorC
"Tsk!" the best
 C minorCm  G+G
"Tsk! Tsk!" the best
 E minorEm  A minorAm    D7sus4D7sus4  D7D7 G+G
"Tsk! Tsk!" the best   in town


🎸 Outro:
    C majorC      G+G      A minorAm      G+G
Not a quack, not a quack, not a waddle or a quack
    c      G+G      A augmentedA     D MajorD
But a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back
    G+G         G+G   GdimGdim
And a head so noble and high
Db7Db7 A minorAm    D7D7   C majorC    D7D7
Say  who's an ugly   duckling?
  G+G   Am7Am7
Not I!

C majorC C majorC G+G Am7Am7  G+G  D7D7

  G+G
Not I!

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