Oscar's "B" Sandwich

sung by Oscar the Grouch (Carroll Spinney)
written by Jerry Juhl and Joe Raposo
Farley: So, so that's the letter A, Oscar.

Oscar: Right and luckily the next letter is B. So I am going to make a B sandwich.

Farley: A B sandwich?

Oscar: It's an old family recipe. Everything in the sandwich starts with the letter B.

You begin with some brown bread and Boston-baked beans
Add boxes of bacon and bits of blue jeans
Boiled boots, billiard balls, black berries too
Butterscotch, broccoli, and buckets of glue

Place barbecued buttons on top of it all
A bunch of bananas and a basketball
A beef burger burned till it's black, oh boy!
A big blob of bubble gum, eat and enjoy! Heh Heh Heh

Now I'll just toss in this rotten old belt, and a bag of birdseed,
and this beat up, brown, battered and busted old balloon

Place barbecued buttons on top of it all
A bunch of bananas and a basketball
A beef burger burned till it's black, oh boy!
It's a big "B" sandwich, eat and enjoy!
Umm-Umm-Umm-Umm (chewing sounds)

Uh-Oh! Needs more bubblegum

Transcribed by Don Murphy and William Powell

Originally released on

The Muppet Alphabet Album (1971)
Children's Television Workshop

The same album was reissued in 1996 as

Sing The Alphabet (CD) and on Cassette

also released on the album

Let A Frown Be Your Umbrella (1974)
Children's Television Workshop