Intro: --First Verse Single Strum Chords-- | Three, is a magic number, | G| Yes it is, it's a magic number. | Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity | G| You get three as a magic number. --Strumming-- | | The past and the present and the future. | | Faith and Hope and Charity, | The heart and the brain and the body | | Give you three, as a magic number. | It takes three legs to make a tri-pod | | Or to make a table stand. | | It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle | | Called a tricycle. | | Every triangle has three corners, | Every triangle has three sides, | No more, no less. | You don't have to guess. | When it's three you can see | G| It's a magic number. | G| A man and a woman had a little baby, | Yes, they did. | They had three in the family, | G| And that's a magic number. | G| 3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30. | G| 3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30. | | (Spoken) multiply backwards from three times ten | | Three time ten is 30, three times nine is 27, | | Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21, | | Three times six is 18, three times five is 15, | Three times four is 12, | And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6, And three times one is three of course. | | (Spoken) Now take the pattern once more | G| 3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30. | G| 3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30. | | (Spoken) now multiply from ten backwards | | Three time ten is 30, three times nine is 27, | | Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21, | | Three times six is 18, three times five is 15, | Three times four is 12, | And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6, | And three times one (what is it?) | G| THREE! Yeah!, Thatâ??s a magic number | A man and a woman had a little baby. | Yes, they did, | There were three in the family. | --Hold last chord-- That's a magic number.