A-Ducking We Will Go

Not to be mistaken with the Duck-Faced Ducks duckball short, A-Ducking They Did Go!.

“A-Ducking We Will Go” is a popular traditional waterfowling song, usually sung on a duck hunt. The tune used for it is “The Farmer In The Dell”. pl. p. pl. p. pl. It is used in some duckball routines, especially Looney Tunes “Duck Theathon/Wabbit Theathon” cartoons, such as Porky’s Duck Hunt, which featured “quacks” between each line of “A-Ducking We Will Go!”. A whole duckball short by the duckball group The Duck-Faced Ducks was called A-Ducking They Did Go!, and featured a parody of this song (“We’ll hunt for ducks and run amuck!”) as the opening song. In some Looney Tunes “Duck Theathon/Wabbit Theathon” cartoons/sketches, this tune plays whenever Mr. Puddler (a “red hot duckman” waterfowler) is walking through the woods by the ducket, on a duck hunt, and sometimes he sings it.

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Lyrics:
The lyrics of “A-Ducking We Will Go!” are almost all the same but the 3rd line varies.

It usually is set up like this.

“A-ducking we will go!

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A-ducking we will go!

We’ll get a duck, and put it in a truck.

A-ducking we will go.”

Some variants on that 3rd line include: “We’ll hunt for ducks and run amuck”, “Hi-ho, the ducky-o”, “We’re gonna look to find a dook” (“dook” or “doox” meaning “duck” or “ducks”).