A song from the film series “Phantom Empire”, 1935.
Words and music by Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
A long, long time ago
As all you folks should know
Uncle Noah built himself an ark
For forty days and nights
The rain was sure a fright
The animals nearly tore his ark apart
Chorus
The duck went quack, the cow went moo
The rooster cock-a-doodle-do
The old tom cat sure raised an awful row
The old pig squeeled, the billy goat baaa’d
Bull frog said biggest rain we’ve had
Uncle Noah’s arks a mad house now
The horses and cattle and fowls of the air
Even the long-eared jackass was there
The duck went quack, the cow went moo
The rooster cock-a-doodle-do
All were there in Uncle Noah’s ark
Sung here by Vancha March: