Ernie: And now, we'd like to do a song our roots.
Bert: Ernie, we're gonna about trees?
Ernie: No, Bert. By roots I mean family. Or, as we say in the country, kin folk.
Bert: We say here in the country?
Ernie: All the time, Bert. Sometimes we about it.
Wow! Yippee 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) Come meet the kin folk on my family
Ernie: There's Sue who sells sea shells Down by the shore
Bert: That's for you to say. And Peter Piper Who peppers by the score Now who
Ernie: Well there's cousins Kim and and Mim And some I've met
Bert: Hey, and Bernice is just like family... for a
Both: They're all 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 remember her. Hey, how My favourite Uncle an oatmeal factory
Ernie: And you won't 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) Just a way of family Kin (kin folk) Kin (kin folk) Come meet the kin folk on my tree
Bert: Hey, it, Oscar!
Oscar: Move over, 'cause it's my turn to sing! We grouches got relatives too, you know. 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 Dan's my kinda man He's into like me
Oh, Oscar! (giggles)
Oscar: And Sloppy the grouch to know His best friend is a
Bert & Sounds like you've got quite a family
I like '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 on my family tree-ee-ee-ee