50 Best Rock Songs About Ducks
Best Rock Duck Songs That Capture Strange Energy
There’s something funny about ducks sneaking into music. Not exactly comedy, not exactly metaphor, but a little of both tangled together. You can picture them flapping around ponds, awkward yet somehow graceful, and the right riff locks into that energy. Half the time the lyrics are literal, other times the duck is a stand-in for chaos, freedom, or a mood no one wants to explain. These tracks carry that oddball spirit, the kind that makes you tilt your head and grin while the guitars crash.
It’s rarely smooth. Ducks are messy, loud in bursts, silent when you expect noise. That same offbeat rhythm pops up in rock anthems that lean into quirk instead of polish. Sometimes it’s playful, sometimes a little sinister, sometimes so strange you’re not sure if the songwriter was being serious. Like plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that circle animals or odd symbols, a few picks here may not be literally centered on ducks but they carry the same crooked vibe. You get riffs that strut, beats that wobble, lyrics that splash around like wings in shallow water.
The best part is how these tracks land in unexpected spots. They can soundtrack a bonfire, an inside joke, or a video that makes your friends stop mid-scroll. They shrug off perfection, let things be clumsy, and that makes them stick. Here are the best rock songs about ducks.
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Top 10 Rock Songs About Ducks
1. 'Ducks on the Wall' by The Kinks
2. 'Duck and Run' by 3 Doors Down
3. 'The Duck Song' by The Ducks
4. 'Quack Kills' by Psychostick
5. 'Duck Rock' by The Goons
6. 'Rubber Ducky' by The Gulls
7. 'The Duck' by The Duck and the Goose
8. 'Ducks' by Adam Wakefield
9. 'One White Duck' by Burl Ives
10. 'The Duck Song (Rock Version)' by Woods of Trees
Essential Rock Songs About Birds #11 to 20
11. 'Blackbird' by The Beatles
12. 'Free Bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. 'Rockin' Robin' by Bobby Day
14. 'Surfin' Bird' by The Trashmen
15. 'Mockingbird' by Carly Simon
16. 'Fly Like an Eagle' by Steve Miller Band
17. 'When Doves Cry' by Prince
18. 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley & The Wailers
19. 'White Bird' by It's a Beautiful Day
20. 'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac
Notable Bird-Themed Rock Songs #21 to 30
21. 'Songbird' by Fleetwood Mac
22. 'The Crow & the Butterfly' by Shinedown
23. 'Birdhouse in Your Soul' by They Might Be Giants
24. 'Birds' by Coldplay
25. 'Bird on the Wire' by Leonard Cohen
26. 'And Your Bird Can Sing' by The Beatles
27. 'The Rooster' by Alice in Chains
28. 'On the Wings of a Nightingale' by The Everly Brothers
29. 'I'm Like a Bird' by Nelly Furtado
30. 'Eagle Birds' by The Black Keys
Great Rock Songs About Feathers #31 to 40
31. 'The Raven' by The Alan Parsons Project
32. 'The Phoenix' by Fall Out Boy
33. 'I See You' by The Byrds
34. 'The Swan Song' by The Rolling Stones
35. 'Hummingbird' by Seals and Crofts
36. 'Little Bird' by Annie Lennox
37. 'Seagull' by Bad Company
38. 'Painted Bird' by Siouxsie and the Banshees
39. 'Rock and Bird' by Cowboy Junkies
40. 'Where Eagles Dare' by Iron Maiden
Rock Music About the Avian World #41 to 50
41. 'Skylark' by The Allman Brothers Band
42. 'The Dodo' by Genesis
43. 'The Bird' by The Time
44. 'Bluebird' by Electric Light Orchestra
45. 'Canary in a Coalmine' by The Police
46. 'I Like Birds' by Eels
47. 'Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly' by Aaron Tippin
48. 'Golden Bird' by The Tea Party
49. 'The Sparrow' by Mastodon
50. 'I Was An Eagle' by Laura Marling
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