Sesame Street - Paper Makin' lyrics

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This here's a story about paper makin'

And this little class that I've been takin'

We make paper but not out of trees

We use old rags and dungerees

How do we do it?

You'll see

First we cut 'em into pieces that are kind of small

Then we put 'em in a beater than beats 'em all

Turns 'em into pulp that is kinda like soup

Then we pour it into buckets and we stir up the goop

Sounds fun, right?

Then we take a wooden frame and we dip it in the mix

And we shake out the water, that's how we get our kicks

Then we open up the frame and slap it on the tray

First I had a little trouble, but, it turned out okay

Not as easy as it looks

Then we stack it in a press

And we tighten the screws

This flattens the paper

And the water gets excused

We open up the press

Take our paper off the pile

And we stick it on the window (sounds like "winda")

And we leave it there a while

Paper's dryin' now

The pink one's mine

We take our paper off the window once it's good and dry

This takes a little doing

Oh, and by the by

See the different colors

Reds, yellows and greens?

Remember these were rags once

And old blue jeans

Really kind of amazin'

Well, now our paper makin' day is done

Hope you liked it, we had fun

If you ever get the chance

You should give it a try

But now we gotta go

So we're gonna say "good-bye"

Kids: Bye!