Ernie: And now, we'd like to do a about our roots.
Bert: Ernie, gonna sing about trees?
No, Bert. By roots I mean family. Or, as we say here in the country, kin folk.
Bert: We say that in the country?
Ernie: All the time, Bert. Sometimes we sing 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) meet the kin folk on my family tree
Ernie: There's Auntie Sue who sells sea Down by the shore
Bert: easy for you to say. And Peter Piper Who picks peppers by the Now who
Ernie: Well cousins Kim and Slim and Mim And some I've met
Hey, and Bernice is just 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 Ernestina To live on
I remember her. Hey, how about: My favourite Uncle Runs an oatmeal
Ernie: And you won't this: But my father'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 family 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 that beautiful?
Bert: Well, different...
And Dirty Dan's my kinda man He's into trash me
Oh, Oscar! (giggles)
Oscar: And Sloppy the grouch to know His best is a flea
Bert & Sounds like you've 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 meet the kin folk on my tree Come the kin folk on my family tree-ee-ee-ee