Ernie: And now, we'd like to do a song our roots.
Ernie, we're gonna sing about trees?
Ernie: No, Bert. By I mean family. Or, as we say here in the country, kin folk.
We say that here in the country?
Ernie: All the time, Bert. we sing about it.
Bert: Wow! tay ay, Ernie! Okay, here we go!
Both: Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Just a way of family Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) meet the kin folk on my family tree
Ernie: There's Sue who sells sea shells by the sandy shore
Bert: That's for you to say. And Peter Piper Who picks peppers by the Now who
Ernie: Well there's cousins Kim and and Mim And some never met
Bert: Hey, and Bernice is just family... for a pigeon
Both: all your Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Just a way of family Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Come meet the kin folk on my family
Why, you know, Bert, My Auntie Ernestina To on Sesame
Bert: I her. Hey, how about: My favourite Ollie Runs an factory
Ernie: And you believe this: But my uncle's mother Was my Bea
Bert: Uhm... Do you mind running that by me one time, Ernie?
Sure, Bert.
Both: all my Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) a way of saying family Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) meet the kin folk on my family tree
Bert: Hey, 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 can folks! Heh heh heh.
Oscar: Rotten Ron and Nephew Nat Who sings off key that beautiful?
Bert: Well, different...
Oscar: And Dirty my kinda man He's into like me
Oh, Oscar! (giggles)
Oscar: And Sloppy Joe's the to know His friend is a flea
Bert & Ernie: Sounds like you've got quite a
Oscar: I 'em!
All: They're all Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Just a way of family Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) meet the kin folk on my family tree Come meet the kin folk on my tree-ee-ee-ee