Текст песни Сказка - Гадкий утенок

It was good outside the city! It was summer. In the fields, rye was already golding, oats were turning green, the hay was torn into haystacks; a long-legged stork walked in a green meadow and chatted in Egyptian - he learned this language from his mother. A large forest darkened behind the fields and meadows, and deep blue lakes hid in the forest. Yes, it was good outside the city! The sun illuminated the old manor, surrounded by deep ditches of water. All the land — from the walls of the house to the very water — was overgrown with burdock, so high that small children could stand under its largest leaves to its full height.

In the burdock most often it was as dull and wild as in a dense forest, and that was where a duck sat on eggs. She had been sitting for a long time, and she was rather tired of this occupation. In addition, she was rarely visited, - other ducks liked to swim in the grooves more than to sit in a burdock and quack along with her.

Finally the egg shells cracked.

The ducklings stirred, banged their beaks and stuck their heads out.

- Peep, peep! - they said.

- Crack, crack! - answered the duck. - Hurry up!

The ducklings scrambled out somehow from the shell and began to look around, looking at the green leaves of the burdock. Mother did not interfere with them - the green color is good for the eyes.

- Oh, how big the world is! - said the ducklings. Still would! Now they were much more spacious than in the shell.

- Do you really think that this is the whole world? said the mother. - What is there! He stretches far, far away, there, beyond the garden, beyond the field ... But, in truth, I have never been there! .. Well, has everyone got out already? - Jonah rose to her feet. - Oh, no, that's not all ... The biggest egg is whole! But when will this be the end! I'll lose my patience soon.

And she sat down again.

- Well how are you? the old duck asked, sticking its head into the thicket of burdock.

“Why, I can't cope with one egg,” said the young duck. - I sit, I sit, but it all does not burst. But look at those babies that have already hatched. Just beautiful! All as one - in the father! And he, unfit, did not even visit me even once!

“Wait, show me the egg that doesn't burst first,” said the old duck. - Isn't it a turkey, what good? Well, yes, of course! .. That's exactly the way I was once held. And how much trouble I had with these turkey poults! You will not believe: they are so afraid of water that they will not be driven into a ditch. Oh, I hissed, and grunted, and just pushed them into the water — they don’t go, and nothing more. Let me take another look. Well, there it is! Turkey! Throw him yes go teach your children to swim!

“No, I will probably sit,” said the young duck. - I suffered so much that I could suffer a little more.

- Well, sit down! - Said the old duck and left. And finally, a large egg cracked.

- Peep! Pip! - the chick squeaked and fell out of the shell.

But how big and ugly he was! The duck looked at him from all sides and flapped his wings.

- A terrible freak! - she said. - And not at all like the others! Is it really a turkey? Well, yes, he will visit me in the water, even if I had to push him there by force!

The next day, the weather was wonderful, green burdock was drenched in the sun.

The duck and her whole family went to the ditch. Plop! - and she found herself in the water.

- Quack quack! Follow me! Alive! - She called, and the ducklings one after another, too, plopped into the water.

First, the water covered them with their heads, but they immediately emerged and floated perfectly. Paws they have earned and earned. Even the ugly gray duckling did not lag behind others.

- What is this turkey? said the duck. - Look how nice paddles paws! And how straight it is! No, this is my own son. Yes, he is not so bad, if you carefully look at him. Well, alive, alive for me! I will introduce you to society now - we will go to the poultry yard. Just keep close to me so that someone does not step on you, but beware of cats!

Soon the duck with all its brood got to the bird's eye.