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"Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)" is a Wiggles song that was first performed live in 1996 at the Wake Up Jeff! tour (later released as Wiggledance!). The song got a studio recording in 1997 and was officially released on the Toot Toot! album. This is believed to be Captain Feathersword's canon backstory.

Listen[]

1997 version[]

File:06 Quack Quack.ogg

1998 version[]

File:Quack Quack (1998).ogg

Lyrics[]

Toot Toot![]

Captain Feathersword fell asleep
on his pirate ship
Then he woke up on a farm
(Oh, my goodness me!)
With roosters and ducks singing this song

Chorus
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack doodley-doo

So now every day when he talks,
this is what he says
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
He also does the farmyard dance
And you can do it too

Chorus

Well, is he a rooster, a duck or a pirate?
Well, I just don't know
Ahoy there, ahoy there
Ahoy quack-a-doodley there.
He also does the barnyard dance
And you can do it too.

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack[]

Doo doobee doo, doobee doo, doo doobee doobee doo
Doo doobee doo, doobee doo, doo doobee doobee doo
Doo doobee doo, scoobee doo, waa
Let's all quack together

Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack doodley doo

Hey, I got one guys
Brr brrr brr brr, Brr brr etc (for length of verse)

How about you, Murray?
Ha ha ha ha, ha ha haa, ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha haa

What's Jeff up to?
(Jeff snores...)

Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack doodley doo

Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack doodley doo

Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack quack quack Cockadoodle doo
Quack quack quack doodley doo

Español (El Captain Feathersword Se Durmió en El Barco Pirata)[]

El Captain Feathersword se durmió
En el barco así
Y luego despertó en una granja
(Caramba!)
Con gallos y patitos cantando así

Chorus
Cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac
Qui-quiriuí-quí
Cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac
Qui-quiriuí-quí
Cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac
Quiquiriquí

Y ahora cada día habla
Y canta y dice así
Cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac, cuac
Qui-quiriuí-quí
Y hace también un baile así

Chorus

Será un gallo o un pirata
Pués yo no lo sé
Oiga sí, oiga no,
yo quisiera adivinar
Y hacer también un baile así

Chorus (Repeat 3 times)

Mandarin (Taiwan)[]

飛毛船長睡著了
在海盗船上
他一覺醒來在農場
(啊! 我的天呀!)
咕咕雞呱呱鴨它們這樣唱

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

所以從現在
當他開口總是這樣說
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
他挑著鴨子搖擺無
你也可以這樣做

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

他是小公雞或大船長
我也搞不懂
Ahoy there, ahoy there
Ahoy there, cock-a-doodley-doo
他挑著鴨子搖擺無
大家一起跳

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Quack, quack, quack-a-doodley-doo

Opera Version[]

Ne quacka doodle doodle doodle
Ne quacka doodle doodle doodle doo
Doodle doo.

Intro Transcript (Wiggledance!)[]

Captain Feathersword: (after getting his hat and sword back) I feel quite quackers after that. Quack, quack, quack.

Anthony: Captain, did you just say "Quack, quack, quack"?

Captain Feathersword: Oh yes, I did say, "Quack, quack, quack."

Anthony:' We can say that, too. Let's all try it together! (with crowd of people) Quack, quack, quack.

Captain Feathersword: Oh, and uh... Cock-a-doodle-doo.

Anthony: We can do that one, too. You ready? (with crowd of people) Cock-a-doodle-doo.

Captain Feathersword: Wow, that's great!

Greg: (arriving while holding duck and rooster hats) Oh-ho! Anthony, I've got some hats here for us to wear. Look at that. There's a rooster hat for you, my friend. (giving rooster hat to Anthony)

Anthony: Oh, looks good. (putting rooster hat on his head)

Greg: Jeff, I've got a duck hat for you (giving duck hat to Jeff and Jeff puts it on his head) and I've got a duck hat myself, so I'll just put that on. (starts putting duck hat on his head)

Anthony: (pointing to Murray arriving while wearing a rooster hat) Hey, look at Murray! He looks great!

Murray: Cock-a-doodle doo!

Greg: It's Murray the rooster!

Murray: Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Greg: Well, now we can all quack, quack, quack, and cock-a-doodle-doo together.

(Jeff plays the intro on piano keyboard.)

Captain Feathersword: Oh yes, indeed. We can do the whole thing. Here we go!

(The Wiggles and Captain Feathersword start singing)

Title History[]

The song's first appearance in Wiggledance! had it titled as "Quack Quack", a title also used for the version used in The Wiggles Movie. Its first studio appearances in Wiggle Time! and TV Series 1 also use this title. However, beginning with its first album appearance in Toot Toot! (not counting the Movie Soundtrack version), its title became officially known as "Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep On His Pirate Ship" for many years, with TV episodes and videos adopting this title beginning with TV Series 2 and The Wiggly Big Show respectively.

The 2005 video and album LIVE Hot Potatoes! combined these two titles into "Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)". This title was later used in Wiggledancing! Live In Concert, The Wiggles Big, Big Show!, and most notably the 2009 and 2013 compilation albums Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles, as well their 2010 and 2014 video counterparts.

From 1999 to 2010, only TV Series 4 (2005) used the original "Quack Quack" title on its own. In recent years, however, the original title has been used again. Since the 2011 album Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show!, nearly all appearances of the song have been credited under this title, with the only exceptions being the updated versions of the Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles album and video, which as mentioned above combines the two titles. Interestingly, the album Hot Potatoes & Cold Spaghetti! adds a comma, calling it "Quack, Quack".

As there has been some debate among fans over whether "Quack Quack" or "Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship" is the true title of the song, this article uses the combined title, to acknowledge both while also using an official alternative title.

Song Credits[]

Written by Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, and Greg Page, published by Wiggly Tunes Pty Ltd.

Trivia[]

  • The piano & trumpet track from the 1996 concert version is reused in The Wiggles Movie with some drums added in.
  • An edited instrumental track of this song has been used twice in TV Series 2. Once for the CGI animation of penguins building a snowman, and the second fully CGI scene of a small yellow duck laying a giant egg in a nest while quacking.
  • Although "Quack Quack" has been changed to “Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship” since 1998, the year when the Toot Toot! album was released, the former title is still heard during the chorus and is still seen in the regular version of the Wiggle Time! 1998 album.
  • The Wiggles wore pirate costumes during this song in The Wiggly Big Show.
  • The 1997 (and 2010 from Wiggly Waffle) versions play in C whereas the current version since 1998 plays in D.
  • The Dorothy the Dinosaur version plays in A.
  • On Xuxa's album and video "Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos", the title is the same one as the original, using the movie version.
  • In 1999, which was 2 years after the song was first published, the song won Most Performed Children's Work at the APRA awards.
  • In the 1998 video, Anthony continuously does his rooster tail on his front instead of at the back.
  • For some performances of the song from 2002 to 2005, only the chorus was sung.
  • A clip of Jeff, John, Tsehay, Simon, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword performing this song was posted on Instagram with the 1997 vocals and instrumental. Captain Feathersword is played by Anthony in the clip as a reference to the early years.
  • In live performances of the song, Captain Feathersword would elongate his singing at the end. ("Doo-oooooooo-hoo!")
  • In 1998, Greg, Murray, and Jeff performed an acoustic version of the song on live television.
  • The opera version of this song is sung to the tune of "Nessun Dorma" in LIVE Hot Potatoes!.

Performances[]

The Wiggles (TV Series 1)[]

The Wiggles (TV Series 2)[]

18-minute version[]

  • Play (studio version)

21-minute version[]

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11-minute versions[]

22-minute versions[]

The Wiggles Show! (TV Series 1)[]

11-minute versions[]

22-minute versions[]

The Wiggles Show! (TV Series 2)[]

11-minute versions[]

22-minute versions[]

The Wiggles Show! (Latin America)[]

Ready, Steady, Wiggle![]

Wiggle Time![]

  • Wiggle Opera (PVD Version) (LIVE)
  • Sailing Around the World Live! (LIVE in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: August 9, 2005 and LIVE in San Diego, California, USA: April 28, 2006)
  • Racing to the Rainbow Live! (LIVE in Everett, Washington, USA: March 16, 2007)

  • Video[]

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