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02x03 - Conjunction Junction

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Schoolhouse Rock!". Aired: January 6, 1973 – March 31, 2009.*
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Themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.

02x03 - Conjunction Junction

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[male narrator]
You've been waiting for...

[narrator reading]

[music playing]

[women singing] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man singing] ♪ Hookin' up words
And phrases and clauses ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
How's that function? ♪

[man] ♪ I got three favorite cars
That get most of my job done ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's their function? ♪

[man] ♪ I got "and," "but" and "or"
They'll get you pretty far ♪

"And," that's an additive,
like "this and that."

"But," that's sort of the opposite.
"not this but that."

And then there's "or," "o-r."

When you have a choice,
like "this or that,"

"and," "but" and "or" get you pretty far!

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ Hookin' up two box cars
And makin' 'em run right ♪

♪ Milk and honey, bread and butter
Peas and rice ♪

-[woman] ♪ Hey, that's nice ♪
-♪ Dirty but happy ♪

♪ Diggin' and scratchin', losin' your shoe
And a button or two ♪

♪ He's poor but honest, sad but true
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ Hookin' up two cars to one
When you say something like this choice ♪

♪ Either now or later ♪

Or no choice.

-♪ Neither now nor ever ♪
-[women] ♪ Hey, that's clever ♪

[man]
♪ Eat this or that grow thin or fat ♪

Never mind. I wouldn't do that.
I'm fat enough now!

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ Hookin' up phrases and clauses
That balance, like ♪

♪ Out of the frying pan
And into the fire ♪

♪ He cut loose the sandbags
But the balloon wouldn't go any higher ♪

♪ Let's go up to the mountains
Or down to the seas ♪

♪ You should always say "thank you" ♪

♪ Or at least say "please" ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ Hookin' up words and phrases
And clauses and complex sentences, like ♪

In the mornings
when I'm usually wide awake,

I love to take a walk through the gardens
and down by the lake...

Where I often see a duck and a drake.

And I wonder as I walk by
just what they'd say if they could speak.

Although I know that's an absurd thought.

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ Hookin' up cars
And makin' 'em function ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
How's that function? ♪

♪ I like tyin' up words
And phrases and clauses ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
Watch that function ♪

[man] ♪ I'm gonna get you there
If you're very careful ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ I'm going to get you there
If you're very careful ♪

[women] ♪ Conjunction Junction
What's your function? ♪

[man] ♪ I'm going to get you there
If you're very careful ♪