Three Is A Magic Number
Jeff Buckley

Three is a magic number,

Yes it is, it's a magic number.

Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity

You get three as a magic number.

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

It's a magic number.

A man and a woman had a little baby,

Yes, they did.

They had three in the family,

And that's a magic number.

3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.

3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30. *

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 twelve,

And three times three is nine, and three times two is six,

And three times one is three of course.

Now take the pattern once more:

Three! . . .3-6-9

Twelve! . . .12-15-18

Twenty-one!. . .21-24-27. . .30

Now multiply from 10 backwards:

Three time ten is (30 - Keep going), 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 twelve,

And three times three is nine, and three times two is six,

And three times one...

What is it?!

Three!

Yeah, That's a magic number.

A man and a woman had a little baby.

Yes, they did.

They had three in the family.

That's a magic number.

Now the multiples of three come up three times in each set of ten. In the first ten, you get 3-6-9, and in the teens ten it's 12-15 and 18, and in the twenties you get 21-24-27 and it comes out even on 30.


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