Morning on the Farm

DESCRIPTION: "On the farm in the morning Many birds awake, In the pastures and meadows The sweetest music make." "Quack, quack, quack, At night the ducks will all come back, It's morning on the farm. "Cock-a-doodle-do, The rooster gets up early too"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1953 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: bird farming chickens
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Frances Boshears, "Granddaddy Roberts," Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1953), p. 152, "(Qu-ack, qu-ack, qu-ack)" (1 text)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
It's Morning on the Farm
NOTES [46 words]: I found several internet references to this from the mid-twentieth century, all of them seemingly from Kentucky, but none citing a real source. I suspect it might have been a late nineteenth century school song, although it's not clear to me what it was supposed to teach. - RBW
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File: MWF3152C

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