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Three is a Magic Number Paroles

Jeff Buckley

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Paroles de Three is a Magic Number

(Schoolhouse Rock Cartoon / live at the Mercury Lounge, New York, on December 31 1995)

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 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.
Ev'ry triangle has three corners; ev'ry 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.
And three times two is six, and three times one is three, of course.

Three times one: what is it? three!
That'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.