Misc Cartoons – Schoolhouse Rock - A Noun Is A Person Place Or Thing (Ukulele)

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Well every person you can know,

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And every place that you can go,

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And anything that you can show,

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You know they're nouns.

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A noun's a special kind of word,

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It's any name you ever heard,

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I find it quite interesting,

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A noun's a person, place, or thing.

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Oh I took a train, took a train to another state.

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The flora and the fauna that I saw were really great.

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When I saw some bandits chasin' the train.

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I was wishin' I was back home again.

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I took a train, took a train to another state.

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Well, every person you can know (Like a bandit or an engineer)

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And every place that you can go (Like a state or a home)

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And anything that you can show (Like animals and plants or a train)

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You know they're nouns - you know they're nouns, oh...

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Mrs. Jones is a lady on Hudson Street.

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She sent her dog to bark at my brother and me.

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We gave her dog a big fat bone,

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And now he barks at Mrs. Jones.

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She's a lady who lives on Hudson Street.

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Well, every person you can know (Mrs. Jones, a lady, or a brother)

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And every place that you can go (Like a street or a corner)

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And anything that you can show (Like a dog or a bone)

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You know they're nouns - you know they're nouns, oh...

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I took a ferry to the Statue of Liberty.

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My very best friend was waitin' there for me. (He took an early ferry.)

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We went for a walk on the island you know,

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And in the middle of summer it started to snow,

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When I took a ferry to the Statue of Liberty.

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Well every person you can know (Like a friend or the captain of a ship)

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And every place that you can go (An island or a sea)

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And anything that you can show (Like a statue, a ferry, or snow)

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You know they're nouns - you know they're nouns.

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Oh, I put a dime in the drugstore record machine.

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Oldies goldies started playing if you know what I mean.

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I heard Chubby Checker, he was doin' the twist

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And the Beatles and the Monkees, it goes like this!

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I put a dime in the drugstore record machine.

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Well every person you can know (The Beatles and the Monkees, Chubby Checker)

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And every place that you can go (Like a neighborhood or a store)

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And anything that you can show (Like a dime or a record machine)

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You know they're nouns.

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A noun's a special kind of word,

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It's any name you ever heard,

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I find it quite interesting,

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A noun's a person, place, or thing.

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A noun is a person, place or thing.