Rubber Duckie, kai ne daya,
Kuna yin lokutan wanka na wasan wanka,
Rubber Duckie, ina jin dadin ku;
(woh woh, kudan zuma doh!)
Rubber Duckie, farin ciki na farin ciki,
Lokacin da na sa ku, ku yi kuka!
Rubber Duckie, kai ne abokina mafi kyau, gaskiya ne!
(Street Sesame, Rubber Duckie)
Wanene bai taɓa yin wanka ba a lokacin wanka, lokacin yarinya ko babba, yana raira waƙa ga yaro? Ducks Rubber suna da wani ɓangare na al'adun mu kamar gumakan wanka na wanka.
Amma menene bayan shahararrun su a cikin dakunan wanka na Arewacin Amirka?
Aikin masana'antu
Duckie na roba (ko kuma, kwanakin nan, kamar fixin filastik) yana da nasaba da haɓakar masana'antun roba a karni na 19.
An fara gabatar da roba a Turai a farkon shekarun 1700 a Faransanci, kuma an wallafa nazarin kimiyya na farko game da dukiyar kayan aiki a wannan karni. Kalmar nan "Rubber" ta fito ne daga Joseph Priestley wanda, a 1770, ya gano cewa kayan zai iya share alamomi da fensir da aka bari a takarda ta hanyar rubutun - don haka "rubber".
Har zuwa karshen marigayi 1800, an samar da tsirrai na roba da ci gaba da bishiya a Brazil, har sai wani dan Birtaniya ya yada tsaba daga kudancin Amirka kuma ya sanya su girma a wurare irin su India, Malaysia da Sri Lanka. Malaysia yanzu ita ce babbar maƙalar launi ta duniya a duniya!
Duckie na farko
A cikin shekarun 1940, wani mai fasahar da ake kira Peter Ganine ya zama na farko na duck na katako.
Domin ya zama mai rai, ya yi watsi da yawancin kayan ado na dabba da ya sanya su a matsayin kayan wasan kwaikwayo - kuma wannan shi ne inda dakin katako na farko ya fara.
Wannan fitowar ta farko na kayan wasan kwaikwayo, wadda aka sanya ta filastik maimakon nauyin roba na jiki, ya kasance mai ban sha'awa, har ma ta yau da kullum: kimanin miliyan 50 ne aka sayar.
Alamar da ake kira "upcapsizeable duck", wanda ke nufin cewa duck iya iyo.
Daga can, duck roba ya sanya hanyar zuwa cikin wanka, zukatan da tunanin jama'ar Amirka.
"Rubber Duckie", hanyar Sesame
Siffar Sesame Street kuma ta ba da gudummawa ga shahararrun duck na katako a gidajen Amirka. A shekarar 1970, wasan kwaikwayon ya nuna waƙar da Ernie yayi waƙa, wanda ya nuna ƙaunarsa game da wasan kwaikwayo a lokacin lokacin wanka.
Wannan waƙa ce mafi kyaun tashar Sesame Street har yau. Ya kai # 16 a kan sashin Top 100 a 1970, kuma an zabi wannan waƙa don kyautar Grammy.
Saboda ƙungiyar Sesame Street bai riga ya samo katakon katako ba wanda ya sa asalin wannan asali, an yi amfani da duck daga 1970 har lokacin da aka sake yin waƙar. Shekaru 45 - wannan kyakkyawar rayuwa ce ga katako roba!
Rubin Duck masu goyon baya a ko'ina
Duckies Rubber yanzu suna da yawa a duk inda kake tafiya. Akwai jita-jita na Sarauniya Elizabeth II wanda ke da launi na roba tare da rawanin jita-jita wanda ya karu da 80% na dan lokaci a Ingila.
Har ila yau, akwai wasu rassan duckie na roba da aka tsara a duniya. Cincinnati, Ohio na da mafi girma a tseren a Amurka: Freestore Foodbank Rubber Duck Regatta.
Kanada yana da manyan ragamar shekara biyu: daya a Saskatoon kuma daya a Halifax.
A Ostiraliya, an gudanar da tseren shekara a Brisbane don samar da kudi ga Cibiyar Bincike na PA.
Ingila tana riƙe da rikodi na babbar tseren duwatsu na roba, tare da wasan kwaikwayo 250,000.
Manyan tunawa na roba
Mene ne tunanin da kake so akan lokacin wanka tare da duckie roba? Shin abokinka mafi kyau, kamar Ernie a waƙar?