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