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Sesame Street |
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Miscellaneous |
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Kin Folk |
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spoken: |
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Ernie: And now, we'd like to do a song about our roots. |
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Bert: Ernie, we're gonna sing about trees? |
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Ernie: No, Bert. By roots I mean family. Or, as we say here in the country, kin folk. |
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Bert: We say that here in the country? |
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Ernie: All the time, Bert. Sometimes we sing about it. |
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Bert: Wow! Yippee tay ay, Ernie! Okay, here we go! |
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sung: |
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Both: Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Just a way of saying family |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Come meet the kin folk on my family tree |
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Ernie: There's Auntie Sue who sells sea shells |
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Down by the sandy shore |
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Bert: That's easy for you to say. |
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And Uncle Peter Piper |
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Who picks peppers by the score |
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Now who else? |
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Ernie: Well there's cousins Kim and Slim and Mim |
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And some I've never met |
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Bert: Hey, and Bernice is just like family... for a pigeon |
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Both: They're all your |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Just a way of saying family |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Come meet the kin folk on my family tree |
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Ernie: Why, you know, Bert, |
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My Auntie Ernestina used |
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To live on Sesame |
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Bert: I remember her. Hey, how about: |
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My favourite Uncle Ollie |
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Runs an oatmeal factory |
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Ernie: And you won't believe this: |
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But my father's uncle's mother |
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Was my great-grandmother Bea |
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Bert: Uhm... Do you mind running that by me one more time, Ernie? |
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Ernie: Sure, Bert. |
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Both: They're all my |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Just a way of saying family |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Come meet the kin folk on my family tree |
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spoken: |
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Bert: Hey, watch it, Oscar! |
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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. |
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sung: |
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Oscar: There's Rotten Ron and Nephew Nat |
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Who always sings off key |
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Isn't that beautiful? |
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Bert: Well, it's different... |
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Oscar: And Dirty Dan's my kinda man |
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He's into trash like me |
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Ernie: Oh, Oscar! (giggles) |
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Oscar: And Sloppy Joe's the grouch to know |
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His best friend is a flea |
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Bert & Ernie: Sounds like you've got quite a family |
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Oscar: I like 'em! |
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All: They're all your |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Just a way of saying family |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Kin folk (kin folk) |
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Come meet the kin folk on my family tree |
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Come meet the kin folk on my family tree-ee-ee-ee |
