The Ugly Duckling chords by Frank Loesser

• Difficulty: Advanced

🎸 Intro:

  C   G   Am G D7 G



🎸 Verse 1:
G#dim   Am          D7    G     G#dim
There  once was an  ugly  duckling
        Am          D7    G     G#dim
With feathers all stubby and brown
         Am    D7+5    G      F7    Fdim
And the other birds in so many words   said
   C          B7     Em   G7
"Quack!" get out of town
   C
"Quack!" get out
   Cm    G
"Quack! Quack! get out
    Em    Am        D7sus4  D7    G
"Quack! Quack! get   out    of   town
        C            G              Am            G
And he went with a "quack." and a waddle and a "quack"
       D7          G
In a flurry of Eiderdown

C G Am G D7 G

🎸 Verse 2:
G#dim   Am          D7   G     G#dim
That   poor little  ugly duckling
         Am    D7     G   G#dim
Went wandering far and near
         Am    D7       G      F7    Fdim
But at every place they said to his face   NOW
   C          B7     Em   G7
"Quack!" get out of here
   C
"Quack!" get out
    Cm    G
"Quack! Quack! get out
    Em    Am        D7sus4  D7    G
"Quack! Quack! get    out    of  here
        C            G              Am            G
And he went with a "quack." and a waddle and a "quack"
       D7            G
and a very unhappy tear.


C G Am G D7 G

🎸 Bridge:
D                C              D           C
All through the winter time he hid hiself away.
     D                C
Ashamed to show his face
    D             A7         D      A7+
Afraid of what others might say.
D      C        D    C       D      C       D     A7
All thru the winter in his lonely clump of weed.
         D             D7-9                           Cm6
Till a flock of swans spied him there and very soon agreed
           D        Am7    D
You're a very find swan indeed!



🎸 Verse 3:
G#dim   Am           D7   G     G#dim
I'm     not such an  ugly duckling
      Am         D7      G      G#dim
No feathers all stubby and brown
         Am        D7-5     G       F7    Fdim
For in fact these birds, in so many words said
   C         B7      Em     G7
"Tsk!" The best in town
   C
"Tsk!" the best
 Cm    G
"Tsk! Tsk!" the best
  Em   Am       D7sus4    D7  G
"Tsk! Tsk!" the  best     in town


🎸 Outro:
        C            G           Am           G
Not a quack, not a quack, not a waddle or a quack
        c            G            A          D
But a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back
        G                 G     Gdim
And a head so noble and high
Db7  Am       D7      C        D7
Say   who's an ugly     duckling?
    G     Am7
Not I!

C  C  G  Am7   G   D7

    G
Not I!

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