spoken:
Ernie: And now, we`d like to do a song about our roots.
Bert: Ernie, we`re gonna sing about trees?
Ernie: No, Bert. By roots I mean family. Or, as we say here in the country, kin folk.
Bert: We say that here in the country?
Ernie: All the time, Bert. Sometimes we sing about it.
Bert: Wow! Yippee tay ay, Ernie! Okay, here we go!
sung:
Both: Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Just a way of saying family
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Come meet the kin folk on my family tree
Ernie: There`s Auntie Sue who sells sea shells
Down by the sandy shore
Bert: That`s easy for you to say.
And Uncle Peter Piper
Who picks peppers by the score
Now who else?
Ernie: Well there`s cousins Kim and Slim and Mim
And some I`ve never met
Bert: Hey, and Bernice is just like family... for a pigeon
Both: They`re all your
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Just a way of saying family
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Come meet the kin folk on my family tree
Ernie: Why, you know, Bert,
My Auntie Ernestina used
To live on Sesame
Bert: I remember her. Hey, how about:
My favourite Uncle Ollie
Runs an oatmeal factory
Ernie: And you won`t believe this:
But my father`s uncle`s mother
Was my great-grandmother Bea
Bert: Uhm... Do you mind running that by me one more time, Ernie?
Ernie: Sure, Bert.
Both: They`re all my
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Just a way of saying family
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Come meet the kin folk on my family tree
spoken:
Bert: Hey, watch it, Oscar!
Oscar: Move over, `cause it`s my turn to sing! We grouches got relatives too, you know. Only we don`t call them kin folks, we call them can folks! Heh heh heh.
sung:
Oscar: There`s Rotten Ron and Nephew Nat
Who always sings off key
Isn`t that beautiful?
Bert: Well, it`s different...
Oscar: And Dirty Dan`s my kinda man
He`s into trash like me
Ernie: Oh, Oscar! (giggles)
Oscar: And Sloppy Joe`s the grouch to know
His best friend is a flea
Bert & Ernie: Sounds like you`ve got quite a family
Oscar: I like `em!
All: They`re all your
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Just a way of saying family
Kin folk (kin folk)
Kin folk (kin folk)
Come meet the kin folk on my family tree
Come meet the kin folk on my family tree-ee-ee-ee
