It's Schoolhouse Rocky, the king of the block,
Of your favorite schoolhouse, Schoolhouse Rock!
Number Twenty Three
Twenty Three, is an astounding number
Look right there... an astounding number
If you look it right square in the eyes
You might just come to realize
That you can multiply by twenty three, if you tries...
Man: Think you can multiply by twenty three?
Kid: Aw, that's hard!
Man: No it's not... if you just use your calculator!
And a calculator is a mighty handy object to have.
So work those numbers and multiply
By twenty three, and you can fly...
Twenty three birds up in the trees,
That's one times twenty three.
Each little bird picks up two sticks
To build his nest, that's forty six.
And in each nest, three eggs so fine,
Good Lord A'mighty, that's sixty nine.
To do the rest, just get your device
And you won't even have to think twice!
Kid: Gosh, I didn't think twenty threes would be so easy!
Man: And it helps if you've got good batteries.
'Cause it's twenty threeee....
And you can seeee....
It's an astounding number.
An astounding number.
Man: Did you know that once there were twenty three United States Presidents?
That was a long time ago, and there have been at least another twenty three since then.
Kid: Wow!
Man: And sometimes Thanksgiving falls on November 23rd!
Kid: Yeah?
Man: Yeah.
Twenty three's important in history,
Just Google it and you can see.
A very big omelet's made from twenty three eggs,
An accident-prone centipede has twenty three legs.
Man: And if you turn your calculator upside-down after typing twenty three,
It looks like it says "E5"!
Kid: Cool!
Man: Yeah. And the letter "E" is the fifth letter of the alphabet,
And when you add the two and the three together, you get five!
Kid: Um, okay.
Twenty three, you can see, is an astounding number.
An astounding number.
