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*** MULTIPLICATION ROCK *** (1973)
Naughty Number Nine
Music & Lyrics: Bob Dorough
Sung by: Grady Tate
Animation: Paul Kimmelman and Associates
- Key to symbols within the lyrics
- Number nine will put you on the spot.
- Number nine will tie you up in a knot.
- When you're trying, multiplyin' by nine
- You might give it everything you got
- And still be stopped.
- If you don't know some secret
- Way you can check on,
- You'll break your neck on
- Naughty number nine.
- <Now the first thing to keep in mind,
- When you're multiplying by nine
- Is that it's one less than ten.
- You see, nine is the same as ten minus one.
- So you could multiply your number by ten
- And then subtract the number from the result,
- And you'd get the same product as if you'd multiplied by nine,
- And you knew it.
- I mean, eight times nine is 80 minus eight,
- And seven times nine is 70 minus seven,
- And six times nine is 60 minus six.
- You could use those tricks.>
- Cause you must have some secret
- Way you can beat it,
- Or else you'll %need it%
- With naughty number nine.
- <Of course, it doesn't hurt to know the table of nines by memory.
- It goes like this:>
- One times nine is nine, and two times nine is 18.
- Mean ol' number nine.
- Three times nine is 27, and four times nine is 36.
- Five times nine is 45, and six times nine is 54,
- And seven times nine is 63.
- Eight times nine is 72, and nine times nine is 81,
- And ten times nine is 90.
- <Now the digit sum is always equal to nine.
- I mean, if you add two and seven, the digits, you get nine:
- the digit sum. That's true of any product of nine.
- If they don't add up, you've made a mistake.>
- 'Cause you must have some secret way you can check it
- Or else you'll wreck it
- With naughty, nasty, mean ol' number nine.
Great thanks to:
David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)
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