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DUCKY DADDLES, by                    
First Line: Ducky daddles, ducky daddles
Last Line: "you are ""ducky"" to the end."
Subject(s): Friendship


Ducky Daddles, Ducky Daddles,
Why it is I do not know
You and I and Tommy Traddles
Ever older had to grow.

You, at least, should both forever
Stay as when I knew you first;
He should not the school charm sever
You should please and tease as erst.

Such a noodle Tommy makes him—
Self in judge's wig sedate!
Who cares now what torment takes him?—
But his skeletons were great!

And the canings Creakle gave him
Made him friends by many a score,
But nobody wants to have him
'Neath his pillow any more.

Why? Because he isn't Traddles
Any longer. Don't you see?
And too, dear Ducky Daddles,—
But I will not hateful be.

You and I croquet were playing
Only several (?) summers back.
Now, grave nonsense you are saying,
In the parlor, you and Jack.

Only think about it, Ducky,
I am used to being told,
I'm a gray-beard (how unlucky!)
But you need not be so old.

Do not hurry life a minute,
'Tis a race you can't refuse;
Though today you long to win it,
Bye and bye you'd rather lose.

Though my heart your wiles have plundered
I must always call you friend;
Though my years become a hundred
You are "Ducky" to the end.





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