I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along

Written by	Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher
Date	1979
Source	The Muppet Movie
Publisher	Sony/ATV Tunes LLC

I Hope That Something Better Comes Along is sung at a bar in The Muppet Movie by Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog. Kermit is feeling blue over Miss Piggy so he wanders into a bar and orders 'a grasshopper'. The pianist, Rowlf, commiserates with him by singing this song about the difficulty of living both with and without women. At the end of the song Rowlf notes that "It's not often you see a guy that green, have the blues that bad."

It is a rare pairing of the two characters, because Jim Henson performs both voices. In order to achieve the duet, the two tracks were recorded separately by Jim and then combined.