Animaniacs Math Song Lyrics

MissF: Yakko...
Yakko: Yes, Miss Flamiel?
MissF: I want you to multiply 47 times 83.
Yakko: Sounds like a song cue to me!
MissF: No it doesn't.
Yakko: Oh yes it does. HIT IT, (Maury?)!

Yakko: Seven times three is twenty-one
Which as you know is just two tens plus one
And so we put the one right here
And we carry the two one left
To the top of the ten's place right next door
And we put it on top of the number four
Which is really four tens that we multiply
Times three in the one's place, and that's why
We now have twelve, which we add to the two
That we carried to get fourteen.

See how easy that was?

Oh ho, it's multiplication
It's math education
Hey, Albert Einstein said that it's so easy to do
It's simple, it's breezy
It's fun and it's easy
Just buy a calculator; you can multiply too.

And now, the second digit...

Seven times eight is fifty-six
Which as you know is just five tens plus six
And so we put the six right here
In the ten's place, left of the one
Carry the five, like we did before
To the top of the ten's place, next to the four
Then multiply that four times eight
To get thirty-two, see isn't this great?
Then we add the five that we carried before
To get thirty-seven, then add once more
Straight down to get three thousand, nine hundred and one.

Isn't this swell?

Oh, let's give multiplication
A standing ovation
Isaac Newton multiplied a couple times, too
Times two, times two, times two
It's simple, it's breezy
It's fun and it's easy
So buy a calculator
And study this stuff later
Maybe someday you can multiply numbers too
Three, four, five

Recess!