Ernie: And now, we'd like to do a about 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 that here in the
Ernie: All the time, Bert. we sing about it.
Wow! Yippee tay ay, Ernie! Okay, here we go!
Both: 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
Ernie: Auntie Sue who sells sea shells Down by the shore
Bert: easy for you to say. And Uncle Piper Who picks by the score Now who
Ernie: there's cousins Kim and Slim and Mim And I've never met
Hey, and Bernice is just like family... for a pigeon
Both: They're all 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
Why, you know, Bert, My Auntie used To on Sesame
I remember her. Hey, how about: My favourite Uncle an oatmeal factory
Ernie: And you won't this: But my father's uncle's 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) meet the kin folk on my family tree
Bert: Hey, it, Oscar!
Oscar: Move over, 'cause 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 always off key that beautiful?
Bert: Well, different...
Oscar: And Dirty my kinda man He's trash like me
Oh, Oscar! (giggles)
Oscar: And Sloppy Joe's the to know His friend is a flea
Bert & Ernie: Sounds like got quite a family
Oscar: I 'em!
They're all your Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Just a way of saying Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Come the kin folk on my family tree Come meet the kin folk on my tree-ee-ee-ee