Kin Folk Lyrics - Sesame Street

spoken: 

Ernie: And now, we'd like to do a song about our roots. 

Bert: Ernie, we're gonna sing about trees? 

Ernie: No, Bert. By roots I mean family. Or, as we say here in the country, kin folk. 

Bert: We say that here in the country? 

Ernie: All the time, Bert. Sometimes we sing about it. 

Bert: Wow! Yippee tay ay, Ernie! Okay, here we go! 

sung: 

Both: Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Just a way of saying family 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Come meet the kin folk on my family tree 

Ernie: There's Auntie Sue who sells sea shells 

Down by the sandy shore 

Bert: That's easy for you to say. 

And Uncle Peter Piper 

Who picks peppers by the score 

Now who else? 

Ernie: Well there's cousins Kim and Slim and Mim 

And some I've never met 

Bert: Hey, and Bernice is just like family... for a pigeon 

Both: They're all your 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Just a way of saying family 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Come meet the kin folk on my family tree 

Ernie: Why, you know, Bert, 

My Auntie Ernestina used 

To live on Sesame 

Bert: I remember her. Hey, how about: 

My favourite Uncle Ollie 

Runs an oatmeal factory 

Ernie: And you won't believe this: 

But my father's uncle's mother 

Was my great-grandmother Bea 

Bert: Uhm... Do you mind running that by me one more time, Ernie? 

Ernie: Sure, Bert. 

Both: They're all my 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Just a way of saying family 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Come meet the kin folk on my family tree 

spoken: 

Bert: Hey, watch 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 them can folks! Heh heh heh. 

sung: 

Oscar: There's Rotten Ron and Nephew Nat 

Who always sings off key 

Isn't that beautiful? 

Bert: Well, it's different... 

Oscar: And Dirty Dan's my kinda man 

He's into trash like me 

Ernie: Oh, Oscar! (giggles) 

Oscar: And Sloppy Joe's the grouch to know 

His best friend is a flea 

Bert & Ernie: Sounds like you've got quite a family 

Oscar: I like 'em! 

All: They're all your 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Just a way of saying family 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Kin folk (kin folk) 

Come meet the kin folk on my family tree 

Come meet the kin folk on my family tree-ee-ee-ee