Ernie: And now, we'd to do a song about our roots.
Bert: Ernie, we're gonna sing about
Ernie: No, Bert. By roots I family. Or, as we say here in the country, kin folk.
Bert: We say that here in the
Ernie: All the time, Bert. Sometimes we 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) Come meet the kin on my family tree
Ernie: There's Auntie Sue who sea shells Down by the sandy
Bert: That's for you to say. And Peter Piper Who picks peppers by the Now who
Well there's cousins Kim and Slim and Mim And some never met
Bert: Hey, and Bernice is like family... for a pigeon
Both: all your 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
Why, you know, Bert, My Auntie used To on Sesame
I remember her. Hey, how about: My favourite Ollie an oatmeal factory
Ernie: And you won't believe But my father's mother Was my Bea
Uhm... Do you mind 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 on my family tree
Bert: Hey, it, Oscar!
Oscar: Move over, 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 Rotten Ron and Nat Who sings off key that beautiful?
Bert: Well, different...
Oscar: And Dirty Dan's my man He's into trash me
Oh, Oscar! (giggles)
Oscar: And Sloppy Joe's the grouch to His best friend is a
Bert & Ernie: like you've got quite a family
Oscar: I 'em!
All: They're all 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 on my family tree-ee-ee-ee