A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING
(Lynn Abrams)

Lynn Abrams


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 is 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
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
You know they're nouns
You know they're nouns.

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.
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 playing
if 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
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.