Lyrics & Music by: Bob Dorough
Performed by: Bob Dorough

Now everybody try to find a good hiding place
This ol' tree is gonna be the base
I'm gonna close my eyes and hide my face
and count to a hundred by fives
Ready? Go!
5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50,
55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100
Ready or not, here I come

Apple, peaches, pumpkin pie
Who's not ready, holler "I"-("I")
Oh, all right, I'll count it again,
But you better get hid, kid
Here we go

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70,
75, 80, 85, 90, 95,100,105,110,115,120 There!
A bushel of wheat and a bushel o' rye,
Who's not hid, holler "I"

'Twenty nickels makes a dollar!
I didn't hear anybody holler
5 x 20 is 100,
Everybody got to be hid
All eyes open, here I come, whew!

Multiplyin' by five is a little like countin' by five In
fact, if you counted along on your fingers as you
counted out loud by fives, your fingers would tell
you how many fives you've got

OK let's count together, now
Count on your fingers
One finger for each count out loud
Get set Ready? Go!

5, 10, 15, 20-STOP!
Twenty
You got four fingers, see, that means 4 x 5 is 20
Let's try another one
Get set Ready? Go!

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35-STOP!
Thirty-five?
Seven fingers that's right,
7 x 5 is 35

OK, let's try a longer one Now when you run out of
fingers at 50 -you see, because 10 x 5 is 50-then start
over with the same fingers and remember that you
owe 10 Get set Ready? Go!

5, 10, 1 5, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60-STOP!
Ten and two, right?
That's twelve fingers
And 12 x 5 is 60
See how it works?

Now you may notice that if you multiply five by an
even number, your product will end in zero; and if
you multiply five by an odd number, your product will
end in five

OK, now let's do one more game of counting by fives
on our fingers
This is a long one
Keep going
Get set Ready? Go!

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50,
55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85-STOP!
Eighty-five Seventeen fingers
Look at that boV with seventeen fingers stickin' up
How do you do that, kid?
Anyway, 5 x 17 is 85

You see, that's three fives short of loo if you had 3
more nickels, 15 cents, and added the 15 to 85, you'd
get 100, right?

'Cause 5 X 20 is 100
Everybody got to be hid!

It's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50,
55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 1 00
Ready or not,

Here I come