All the ducks are swimming in the water

[venta]

In respect of yesterday's poll: hurrah, you are all sensible people. And you have confirmed my belief that one of my colleagues, who unexpectedly proclaimed "what's the difference between a chicken?" (and then insisted that "duck" was insanity), is Just Wrong.

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[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

This lyric in the title. It's new to me, but there's a dutch nursery rhyme which goes

All the ducklings swimming in the water
Fal de ral de ra ra
Fal de ral de ra ra

Is this the same thing?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, I was actually quoting Lemon Jelly's Nice Weather For Ducks, but it does sound remarkably similar. So they were presumably quoting the nursery rhmye.

Listen to 'Nice Weather For Ducks' on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioudby-xooc)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that their sample does actually come from a TV programme of the 50s/60s, where in a Playschool-like fashion nursery rhymes were read out over enacted animation. Although, unhelpfully, I don't know which programme. Watch with Mother maybe?