The Garden

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Written by	Joe Raposo
Music by
Lyrics by
Date	1969
Source
Publisher	Jonico Music Inc. Green Fox Music Inc.

"The Garden" is a Sesame Street song 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 the playground used to be."

Another version of the song, as performed by Big Jeffy (the bass singer for Little Jerry and the Monotones), was featured on the show in the 1970s; during the bridge, Jeffy tells Cookie Monster and Grover to stop littering.

Album Releases

• The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album (1971)
• Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella (1974)

Other Uses

• The Dead Hensons did their own recording of this song.
• The song was used in the garden stage of the Elmo's Number Adventure video game for Nintendo 64 and Playstation.