"The Garden" is a Sesame Street song from the first season about trash, sung by Susan and Oscar. It warns that if you make a mess without cleaning it up, you will end up with a "glop, glop, grungy, glop garden" where anything in that area you made the mess in used to be.

Another version of the song, as performed by three Anything Muppet hippies, was featured on the show one season later; during the bridge, the lead hippie (Fat Blue Muppet) tells Cookie Monster and Grover to stop littering. (EKA: Episode 0238)

ReleasesEdit

Audio (Susan and Oscar's version)

• The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album (1971)
• Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella (1974)
• 60 Favorite Songs from Sesame Street (1975)
• Sesame Street Music Society Album (1978)
• Just Friends (1982)

Publications

• The Sesame Street Songbook (1971 edition only)
• Songs of Sesame Street (1977)
• Sesame Street Songbook Vol. 2

Other versionsEdit

• The song was used in the garden stage of the Elmo's Number Journey video game for Nintendo 64 and Playstation.

• Oscar sings a modified version of the song in the Sesame Street Live show Elmo's Green Thumb in which he explains about what he plants in his own garden.