Letra The Rhyming Game de Sesame Street original

Bert: (reading an oatmeal recipe book, 'Cooking With Oatmeal')
'You take four cups of oatmeal...two pitted mangoes...'

Ernie: 'Hey Bert!'

B: '...buttermilk...'

E: 'Hey Bert! It's time for the rhyming game Bert!'

B: 'Oh, no Ernie, thanks, I don't want to play a game, I'm reading my book.'

E: 'Oh, but you'll love this game, Bert! See all you have to do is, you say something, and then I'll say something that rhymes with what you just said!'

B: 'Uh-huh, yeah, but I really don't want to play a game.'

E: 'Maybe not Bert, but we'll do it all the same!
You see that, you said game and I said same, and game and same both rhyme!'

B: 'Yeah, uh-uh, rhyme, I know. But Ernie, it's just not what I want to do.'

E: 'Wiggle your finger, and waggle your shoe!'

(drums start)

B: 'Uh, Ernie, I'd much rather sit and read my book.'

E: 'With ears you hear, and with eyes you look!'

B: 'Now come on Ernie, cut this out.'

E: 'Easy old buddy, no need to shout!'

B: 'I don't want to play a game with rhymes!'

E: 'Nice going Bert, oh ring my chimes!'

B: 'I don't wanna do it!'

E: 'There's really nothing to it!'

B: 'It's so silly.'

E: 'A boy named Billy.'

B: 'Stop it, please!'

E: 'A dog has fleas!'

B: 'Oh!'

E: 'Mow!'

B: 'Ernie, please this has got to stop!'

E: 'Some people like to jump and hop!'

B: 'I don't wanna do it (Ernie interrupts)any more.'

E: 'What what hmmm?' (I like this part because here Jim H. messed up and they were able to recover wonderfully)

B: 'What what hmmm?! I don't want to do it anymore!'

E: 'Oh. One and two and three and four.'

B: 'Ernie!'

E: 'Bernie!'

B: 'Stop it!'

E: 'Mop it!'

B: 'Stop!'

E: 'Flop!'

B: 'No!'

E: 'Flow!'

B: 'Mmmmmmm....Hippopotamus!

E: 'Ahhhhh...rhipototopus!'

B: 'Egh! Alright, alright! I give up!'

E: 'Eat from a plate and drink from a cup!'

B: 'I guess I'll just have to play along.'

E: 'It plays like a game and sings like a song!'

B: 'You may be right, I may be wrong.'

E: 'A clock goes tick and a bell goes bong.'

B: 'This game is really kinda kicky!'

E: 'Sugar's sweet and glue is sticky.'

B: 'Yeah, water is wet and dust is dry!'

E: 'Dogs gotta walk and birds gotta fly!'

B: 'It's a great kind of game to play with a friend!'

E: 'And now old buddy we've come to the end!'

(drums stop)

B: 'Yah! You're right Ernie, that's a great game ... you' (still in rhythm)

E: 'Ah...w-well Bert see, I think I'm gonna go read my book now, okay? Hmm hmm hmm...'

B: '...... Hey there lamp, that's a nice shade .... you .... it's not the same.'