Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends

DESCRIPTION: "Be kind to your web-footed friends, For a duck may be somebody's mother...." Listeners are urged to be kind to swamp animals and perhaps other ecologically unfortunate creatures
AUTHOR: Music ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") by John Philip Sousa, 1897
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Morgan/Green-RugbySongs)
KEYWORDS: humorous parody animal nonballad campsong
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 52, "Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends" (1 text, tune referenced)
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, p. 171, "Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends" (1 text
cf. Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, p. 535, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 166, "Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends" (notes obly)
DT, WEBFOOT
Roud #10248
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (tune)
NOTES [51 words]: Of *course* it's a folk song. Think about where *you* learned it.
There are words for "The Stars and Stripes Forever," written by Bob Russell; BoyScoutSongbook1997, pp. 42-43, prints them. I doubt they influenced this parody; these word are frankly both more intelligent and a better fit than Russell's. - RBW
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