Grim, det ka’ jeg…

There once was an ugly duckling
With feathers all stubby and brown
And the other birds said in so many words
Get out of town
Get out, get out, get out of town
And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
In a flurry of eiderdown
That poor little ugly duckling
Went wandering far and near
But at every place they said to his face
Now get out, get out, get out of here
And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
And a very unhappy tear
All through the wintertime he hid himself away
Ashamed to show his face, afraid of what others might say
All through the winter in his lonely clump of wheat
Till a flock of swans spied him there and very soon agreed
You?re a very fine swan indeed!
A swan? Me a swan? Ah, go on!
And he said yes, you?re a swan
Take a look at yourself in the lake and you?ll see
And he looked, and he saw, and he said
I am a swan! Wheeeeeeee!
I?m not such an ugly duckling
No feathers all stubby and brown
For in fact these birds in so many words said
The best in town, the best, the best
The best in town
Not a quack, not a quack, not a waddle or a quack
But a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back
And a head so noble and high
Say who?s an ugly duckling?
Not I!
Not I!

Danny Kaye lagde sig midt i den danske national-skat, da han under et bes?g i landet og deriblandt Odense og H.C. Andersens hus, dristede sig til at afpr?ve digterens seng. Det skabte furore og jeg husker endnu, at landets aviser ryddede forsider for at afbillede vandalen, som troede sig berettiget til en plads i sengen, fordi han nogle ?r forinden (1952) havde enorm succes med filmen om den unge digter, som forlod barndomshjemmet og drog til k?benhavn for at finde lykken.

En af sangene i filmen var denne om den stakkels grimme ?lling, som vokser op og ender som en smuk svane. I aften skulle den tolkes fra originalsproget og se her er noget jeg kan…

Jeg er d?lme go’ (overdrivelse fremmer forst?elsen) som den grimme ?lling, s? nu venter jeg bare p? at jeg ogs? bliver voksen… og p?n…