Karaoké Three Is a Magic Number Schoolhouse Rock (Bob Dorough)

Three is a magic number

Yes it is

It's a magic number

Somewhere in the ancient mystic trinity

You get three as a magic number

The past and the present and the future

Faith and hope and charity

The heart and the brain and the body give you three as a magic number

It takes three legs to make a tripod or to make a table stand

It takes three wheels to make a vehicle called a tricycle

Every triangle has three corners

Every triangle has three sides

No more, no less

You don't have to guess

When it's three you can see it's a magic number

A man and a woman had a little baby

Yes they did

They had three in the family and that's a magic number

Three, six, nine

Twelve, fifteen, eighteen

Twenty-one, twenty-four

Twenty-seven

Thirty

Three, six, nine

Twelve, fifteen, eighteen

Twenty-one, twenty-four

Twenty-seven

Thirty

Now the multiplies of three come up three times in each set of ten

In the first ten you get three, six, nine and in the teens' ten it's twelve fifteen and eighteen

And in the twenties you get a-twenty-one

Twenty-four, twenty-seven and it comes out even on thirty

Yeah

Now multiply backwards from three times ten

Three times ten is thirty

Three times nine is twenty-seven

Three times eight is twenty-four

Three times seven is twenty-one

Three times six is eighteen

Three times five is fifteen

Three times four is twelve and three times three is nine and three times two is six

And three times one is three of course

Now dig the pattern once more

Three

Three, six, nine

Twelve

Twelve, fifteen, eighteen

Twenty-one

Twenty-one, twenty-four

Twenty-seven

Thirty

Yeah thirty

Now multiply from ten backwards

Three times ten is thirty

Three times nine is twenty-seven

Going home

Three times eight is twenty-four

Three times seven is twenty-one

Three times six is eighteen

Three times five is fifteen

Three times four is twelve and three times three is nine and three times two is six

And three times one

What is it

Huh

Three

Yeah

That's a magic number

A man and a woman had a little baby

Yes they did

They had three in the family

That's a magic number