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When I was in 4th grade in 1991, we listened to a song on a casette tape that was a long rhyming list of all different examples of nouns. I specifically remember a man introducing the song by singing "A cabbage or a king, the words we want to sing about are nouns! Oh well there's..."

I also can remember the very last verse perfectly:
"Canada, Vermont, New York, and even your home town...
Mississippi and Alaska
Tallahasse and Nebraska,
Every single one is just a noun."

Did anybody else ever listen to or teach this in grade school? I *really* don't think it was a School House Rock song, since those are usually videos, and we only ever listened to this.

2006-06-22 11:47:24 · 4 answers · asked by Marikology 2 in Education & Reference Primary & Secondary Education

So far, none of the answers are correct - this song didn't have any sort of narrative, it was just a long, rhyming list of words, and I specifically remember that last verse.

2006-06-22 13:28:44 · update #1

4 answers

http://www.postdiluvian.org/~gilly/Schoolhouse_Rock/HTML/grammar/noun.html
School House Rock Song - Grammer Rock
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: Lynn Ahrens
Animation: Phil Kimmelman and Associates

Well every person you can know,
And every place that you can go,
And any thing 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.
But 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...
{Like a bandit or an engineer.}
And every place that you can go...
{Like a state or a home.}
And any thing that you can show...
{Like animals and plants or a train.}
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.}
Well 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.}
Well you know they're nouns
You know they're nouns, oh!

I put a dime in the drugstore record machine.
Oldie-goldies started playing - you know what I mean.
I heard Chubby Checker, he was doing the twist,
And the Beatles and the Monkees
It goes like this.
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.}
Well 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.

2006-06-22 11:59:57 · answer #1 · answered by Deana G 5 · 0 1

NO, it's NOT school house rock. This is a different song and I am trying to find it too and I haven't had any luck yet!! Children of the late 80s/ early 90s song....?? I can hear it in my head but can't find it :((

2015-03-03 04:57:56 · answer #2 · answered by Nicole 1 · 0 0

it was school house rock, a few years back they came out with a 4 cd box set with all the songs, last i knew there was a dvd with all of the school house rock videos on it, goto the video store and pick up a copy for yourself!

2006-06-22 11:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by NTH IQ 6 · 0 0

Of couse it was a Schoolhouse Rock song.

"A noun is a person, place, or thing..."

2006-06-22 11:50:58 · answer #4 · answered by yogabbagabba 5 · 0 0

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