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02x01 - A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Schoolhouse Rock!". Aired: January 6, 1973 – March 31, 2009.*
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Themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.

02x01 - A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing

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[narrator reading]

♪ Well, every person
You can know ♪

♪ And every place
That you can go ♪

♪ And anything that you can show
You know they're nouns ♪

♪ A noun's a special kind of word
It's any name you ever heard ♪

♪ I find it quite interesting ♪

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

♪ Oh, I took a train, took a train
To another state ♪

♪ The flora and the fauna
That I saw were really great ♪

♪ When I saw some bandits
Chasing the train ♪

♪ I was wishing I was back home again ♪

♪ I took a train, took a train
To another state ♪

♪ Well, every person you can know ♪

[woman]
Like a bandit or an engineer.

♪ And every place that you can go ♪

Like a state or a home.

♪ And anything that you can show ♪

Like animals and plants or a tree.

♪ You know they're nouns
You know they're nouns, oh ♪

♪ Mrs. Jones is a lady on Hudson street ♪

♪ She sent her dog to bark
At my brother and me ♪

♪ We gave her dog a big, fat bone ♪

♪ And now he barks at Mrs. Jones ♪

♪ She's a lady who lives
On Hudson street ♪

♪ Well, every person you can know ♪

Mrs. Jones, a lady or a brother.

♪ And every place that you can go ♪

Like a street or a corner.

♪ And anything that you can show ♪

Like a dog or a bone.

♪ You know they're nouns
You know they're nouns, oh ♪

♪ I took a ferry
To the Statue of Liberty ♪

♪ My best friend was waiting there for me
He took an early ferry ♪

♪ We went for a walk
On the island, you know ♪

♪ And in the middle of summer
It started to snow ♪

♪ When I took a ferry
To the Statue of Liberty ♪

♪ Well, every person you can know ♪

Like a friend or the captain of a ship.

♪ And every place that you can go ♪

An island or a sea.

♪ And anything that you can show ♪

Like a statue, a ferry or snow.

♪ You know they're nouns
You know they're nouns ♪

♪ Oh, I put a dime in
The drugstore record machine ♪

♪ Oldie goldies started playin'
You know what I mean ♪

♪ I heard Chubby Checker
He was doin' the twist ♪

♪ And the Beatles and the Monkees
It goes like this, yeah ♪

♪ I put a dime in
The drugstore record machine ♪

♪ Well, every person you can know ♪

The Beatles and the Monkees,
Chubby Checker.

♪ And every place that you can go ♪

Like a neighborhood or a store.

♪ And anything that you can show ♪

Like a dime or a record machine.

♪ You know they're nouns ♪

♪ A noun's a special kind of word
It's any name you ever heard ♪

♪ I find it quite interesting
A noun's a person, place, or thing ♪

♪ A noun is a person, place, or thing ♪