It's ridiculous, the duck. The giant, absurd duck ducking its way upriver toward Pittsburgh.

So many people are so excited and I have no idea why.

Maybe it's as basic as childhood. As "Sesame Street." You hear that song in your head already, don't you? Ernie, all by his lonesome, singing to his cherished bathtime friend.

Suffice it to say that song's been stuck in my general cranial area. Twitter, Facebook -- anywhere on the Pittsburgh internets, really -- are full of images of and stories about that duck. People planning to see the duck. Or who loathe the duck. Or search themselves to comprehend the duck.

And all I can think of is that song.

So here it is again for the first time, reimagined for Pittsburgh. You're welcome?

Rubber ducky, you’re the one

You give yinzers lots of fun

Rubber ducky, Pittsburgh’s awfully fond of you

Rubber ducky, hi n’at

Without you our Three Rivers’re kinda flat

Rubber ducky, there ain’t nothin’ too jaggy ‘bout you

Every day when I

Drive ‘cross the ‘gheny and Mon

I see you smiling like the Pirates won

Big and yellow and tubby

(rub-a-dub-dubby)

Rubber ducky, you’re so great

We love you more than a Kennywood date

Rubber ducky, Pittsburgh’s awfully fond of you.

Rubber ducky, you’re the one You give yinzers lots of fun Rubber ducky, Pittsburgh’s awfully fond of you Rubber ducky, hi n’at Without you our Three Rivers’re kinda flat Rubber ducky, there ain’t nothin’ jaggy ‘bout you Every day when I Drive ‘cross the ‘gheny and Mon I see you smiling like the Pirates won Big and yellow and tubby (rub-a-dub-dubby) Rubber ducky, you’re so great We love you more than a Kennywood date Rubber ducky, Pittsburgh’s awfully fond of you