Three is a Magic Number
By Bob Dorough - School House Rock 1973
This is a very easy song. Check out the original on Youtube.
Capo 2 for original TV version.
Intro: DGA
--First Verse Single Strum Chords--
|DG |DG
Three, is a magic number,
|DG |DG|
Yes it is, it's a magic number.
|DG |DG
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
|DG |DG|
You get three as a magic number.
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--Strumming--
|DG |
The past and the present and the future.
|DG |
Faith and Hope and Charity,
|DG
The heart and the brain and the body
|DG |DG |
Give you three, as a magic number.
|DG
It takes three legs to make a tri-pod
|DG |
Or to make a table stand.
|DG |
It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle
|DG |
Called a tricycle.
|DG |
Every triangle has three corners,
|DG
Every triangle has three sides,
|DG
No more, no less.
|DG
You don't have to guess.
|DG
When it's three you can see
|DG|
It's a magic number.
|DGDG|
A man and a woman had a little baby,
|DG
Yes, they did.
|DG |DG
They had three in the family,
|DG|DG|
And that's a magic number.
|DG |DG |DG |DG|
3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|DG |DG |DG |DG|
3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|DG |
(Spoken) multiply backwards from three times ten
|DG |DG |
Three time ten is 30, three times nine is 27,
|DG |DG |
Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21,
|DG |DG |
Three times six is 18, three times five is 15,
|DG
Three times four is 12,
|BmA |G
And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6,
E |A
And three times one is three of course.
| |
(Spoken) Now take the pattern once more
|DG |DG |DG |DG|
3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|DG |DG |DG |DG|
3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|DG |
(Spoken) now multiply from ten backwards
|DG |DG |
Three time ten is 30, three times nine is 27,
|DG |DG |
Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21,
|DG |DG |
Three times six is 18, three times five is 15,
|DG
Three times four is 12,
|BmA |G
And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6,
E |A |
And three times one (what is it?)
|DG |DG |DG|
THREE! Yeah!, That?s a magic number
|DG |DGA man and a woman had a little baby.
|DG
Yes, they did,
|DG |DG
There were three in the family.
|D --Hold last chord--
That's a magic number.
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