Unknown - Gooey Duck Song Lyrics

(by Ron Konzak and Jerry and Judy Elfendahl)
(c.1972)

You can hear the diggers say, as they're headed for the bay,
Oh I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day,
'Cause I get a buck a duck, if I dig a duck a day,
So I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day.

[Chorus:]
Dig a duck, dig a duck,
Dig a gooey duck
Dig a duck, dig a geoduck*,
Dig a duck a day.

Oh it takes a lotta of luck, and a certain kinda pluck
For to dig around the muck, for to get a geoduck.
For he doesn't have a front and he doesn't have a back,
And he doesn't know Donald, and he doesn't go quack!

As they walk across the sand, nearly half a mile from land,
For to dig a geoduck, for to dig them out by hand,
Oh it isn't any trouble and it doesn't take a shovel,
To find a geoduck by looking for the bubble.

(sing out says repeat first verse, to chorus)

*A geoduck (pronounced "gooey-duck") is a giant clam
the world's largest burrowing bivalve, often attaining a weight of ten pounds.
The "Gooey Duck" song was written by harpmaker-
storyteller Ron Konzak of Washington State along with Judy and Jerry Elfendahl.

[Thanks to Ember.Bullardodea for correcting these lyrics]