Six Lyrics - Sesame Street

SPOKEN: 

Ernie: What are you doing, Bert? 

Bert: Sitting and thinking. 

Ernie: Thinking about what? 

Bert: My favorite number. 

Ernie: Oh? That's really ... boring, Bert. 

Bert: Not my number, Ernie. 

Ernie: Well, what is your favorite number? 

Bert: I thought you'd never ask ... 

SUNG: 

Bert: Six 

Ernie: Six? 

Bert: My favorite number is six 

Ernie: Bert, nobody's favorite number is six. 

Bert: Sometimes I spend the whole afternoon 

Sitting around, and singing a tune about 

Six 

Ernie: Six, hmm? 

Bert: Sometimes I think of six bricks. 

Ernie: Bert, that's very boring. 

Bert: Or else I think of six sticks 

Ernie: Well, that's even more boring. 

Bert: Not five bricks or stick, but six 

Now two is your eyes and one's your nose 

And five is your fingers or your toes 

And four is the legs on an easy chair 

Yet there's no number can compare with 

Six 

Ernie: How about 9 or 3? 

Bert: Nothing more lovely than six 

Ernie: I don't know, Bert ... 

Bert: When someone says, "Hey, Bert, pick a number" 

Well, I always pick the one nobody picks -- 

My favorite number is six. 

SPOKEN: 

Ernie: You know, I hate to break this to you, Bert, but six isn't anybody's favorite number. 

Bert: It's my favorite number, Ernie. 

Ernie: I mean, six just sort of sits there between five and seven. You know, you have five fingers on your hand, and there are seven days in a week, but there's not really six of anything. 

Bert: I know, Ernie, I know. 

SUNG: 

Now two is your eyes and one's your nose 

And five is your fingers or your toes 

And four is the legs on an easy chair 

But there's no number can compare with 

Six 

Ernie: All right, Bert ... 

Bert: Nothing more lovely than six. 

Ernie: Have it your way. 

When someone says, "Hey, Bert, pick a number" 

Well, I always pick the one nobody picks -- 

My favorite number is six. 

SPOKEN: 

Bert: What are you doing, Ernie, can I sit in my chair now, huh? 

Ernie: Not right now, I'm thinking about my favorite number. 

Bert: What is it, Ernie, what is it? 

Ernie: 8,243,721. 

Bert: I still like six.