Sesame Street Lyrics Archive

Help Wanted! Part 2




  • "The Man In Trash" sung by guest singer Johnny Cash; duet with Oscar the Grouch


  • "Me" not the same as the one online here, this one's sung by Big Bird and may have been recorded on a tape that came with the Big Bird singing toy


  • "Mistakes Can Happen To Anyone" just a guess on the title, some lyrics:

    Oops, I made a mistake that's all
    and mistakes can happen to anyone


  • "Mobity Mosley's Month" from the album, "My Name is Roosevelt Franklin", some lyrics thanks to SlvrSlprz@aol.com:

    Roosevelt Franklin: (I know someone who knows all the months of the year, and his name is Mobity Mosley.)

    (Mobity Mosley names January through April. Here there's a lot of words I forget, besides the names of the months, of course.)

    Mobity Mosley: January, February! March and April. Now I gotta hurry.
    (He names May through December)
    Now I'm gonna name 'em all. See how many I can call.
    (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December!)
    (Here he has more spoken lines I don't remember.)
    What a shame.
    They don't know my name.
    It's Mobity Mosley ... (fade out)


  • "Monster With A Suitcase" a male monster (nameless, he turns up from time to time, once in an early spot as Prairie Dawn's pet cat!). Kermit is trying to guess what the monster, also holding an umbrella, is planning to do. The monster exclaims that the umbrella is not to keep off the rain -- it's for lunch! And the suitcase? Well, it's full of ketchup! "Who'd eat an umbrella without ketchup?!" and he then starts slathering it on and chomping down! Thanks to Mrs. Mishima for the details.


  • Monsterpiece Theatre skits especially "Chariots Of Fur" and "The King And I"


  • "Mountain of Love" I can picture some muppet guys climbing a mountain, it's a doo-wop type song. Some lyrics:

    The Mountain of Love
    So high in the air
    You know you must climb it
    For Love is waiting there
    Love will be waiting
    High on the Mountain of Love
    (The Mountain of Love)


  • "My Name Is Roosevelt Franklin"


  • "My Son Benjamin" a short video from 1978 about a blond boy around a year old, anyone know the words or, better yet, have the video clip?


  • "The Name Game" just a guess on the title, this one was sung by the human cast and is similar to the hit of the same name ("Banana-Fanna-Fo-Fanna"). Some possible lyrics:

    Susan, Susan, Colla-Walla Wusan ...
    They may sound silly but they all rhyme


  • "New Friends" (pure guess on the title) sung by David and Olivia, "sing a song about new friends, sing a song about coconuts in your head"


  • "Oh, Please Give Cookie To Me" sung by Cookie Monster (natch!), some memories from SlvrSlprz@aol.com:

    Oh, I don't want a shiny toy car or a trip in a plane flying over the sea.
    There's just one thing that me want, and if you got, then I hope you give it to me.
    (speaking) Don't want a yo-yo, or baseball, or skates.
    (I forget the next line.) You guessed it!
    (singing) I want cookie!
    I love cookie!
    Nobody love cookie as me.
    Oh, please give cookie to me!
    (speaking) Please!


  • "One Way" "One way the sign says one way"


  • "The Pasta Song" "Orrichietti and spaghetti and linguini ... rigatoni, cannelloni, tagliattelle and ... Pasta! Pasta! Very good for you!"


  • "Raise Your Hand" for lack of a better title. Done by the Mahna Mahna guy or at least an orange muppet wearing a suit and sunglasses.


  • Readers Of The Open Range w/Elmo in .WAV or .MP3 format


  • "Roosevelt Franklin How Old Are You?" for lack of a better title.


  • "Rubber Duckie" in Spanish (available on tape)


  • "Sesame Street Fever", a classic disco album now out-of-print, we'll take a cassette copy if we can, anything!


  • songs from "Sesame Street Sing the Alphabet" in particular, "The Opening," "The Closing," and "What Letter Comes Next?"


  • "Sharing" "Sharing, is what good friends do, whatever I have, you can have some too"


  • "Signs", for lack of a better name, the one where kids sing the words on signs as they're filmed thoughout the city. Something like this:

    In, Enter, Exit, Enter, Don't Walk
    No Parking, Tow-Away Zone
    Uptown, Downtown
    Park Avenue
    No Right Turn, No Left Turn
    What do you do?
    Gas, Car Wash, Subway. . .
    Home, sweet home!


  • "Simon The Soundman Has Car Trouble" a skit where Simon needs to use Ernie's phone.


  • "Sleep Song" sung by Mr. Hanford, Baby Bear, and Zoey, when Mr. Hanford worked at the daycare center, a parade and a police chase interrupt naptime: "Hey look, there's a flock of geese, closely followed by the police"


  • "Slippery Slim" some lyrics from SlvrSlprz@aol.com:

    Yeah, Slim, Slippery Slim.
    When the going gets rough, no job's too tough for him.


  • "The Spanish Counting Song" sung by Maria ("Uno, dos, tres, cua-a-a-tro, ci-i-i-nco, se-e-e-is! Sie-e- e-te, o-o-o-cho, nue-e-e-ve, diez!")


  • "Spanish Fruit Song" sung by, what else? Fruit! They sing this from inside a refrigerator: "Pear is perra (sp?) and apple is mansaaaaana, pineapple is pina"


  • "Sticky" all about things that are sticky, "Peanut butter is sticky"


  • "Stones On The Street" (just a guess on the title) sung by two crows, some lyrics: "Stones on the street, They don't need to eat, They don't breathe, they don't grow, They don't learn, they don't know, What it is, what it is, To be Alive!" 1st crow: "Like a monkey or a donkey." 2nd crow: "Or a bird or a cat." "


  • "A Stool For Me" with a human father and his daughter. She tells and sings the story of building a stool from scratch.


  • "Sugar Beets" some lyrics are online here


  • "Take The Hand Of Someone You Love" song about crossing the street. "You've got to take the hand of someone you love, before you cross the street. You've got to take the hand of someone you love, before you move your feet! Yeah, yeah!"


  • Teeny Little Super Guy full theme in .WAV or .MP3 format


  • "Telly's Lullaby" maybe when Telly slept over at Big Bird's nest?


  • "That's How I Know You're Happy" with Nina the Nice and Bob. This song takes place in Grouchytown, where everything is the opposite of things on Sesame Street. Grouchytown has one nice person, Nina the Nice, and she and Bob sing a song: "Where's that little smile? There it is!"


  • "There Once Was A Hand" very odd-sounding skit from the old days. John Perkovic unburdens himself with his memories, reprinted here with his therapist's permission :-) :

    "I think the first line was ... "There once was a hand ..." Then this hand appears against a plain blue screen. Later, it grasps at the screen to illustrate "scary". Later, it is joined by another hand to show how through co-operation, they can clap. While this is going on, some of the scariest organ music you'll ever hear serves as the background as the two hands ready themselves into position on either end of the screen. Then the music stops abruptly, and the hands begin clapping. At the end, they join pinkies. Co-operation, see? This scared the hell out of me. I was convinced those damn hands had NO BODIES and in fact had nightmares that they were coming out of the walls and chasing me around. I couldn't watch Sesame Street very much after that and when I did, it had to be with my guardians and with a lot of lights on."


  • "There's Nothing We Women Can't Be" sung by a group of female muppets, some lyrics: "I can drive cars (?). . . I can be a bus driver (?) . . . I can chop wood" Towards the end, a female astronaut launches off like a rocket.


  • "Trying and Trying Again" a kitten trying to climb some steps


  • "Twelve"


  • "U Really Got a Hold on Me" with Smokey Robinson and the letter U


  • Under The Same Moon NOT the title, just a key lyric from a Susan and Gordon tune from way back. Seems they were apart for some reason, does this ring a bell?


  • Up and Down just a guess on the title, this is the one done by Ernie and Placido Flamingo at "Live From The Nest" about up and down. The two of them go upstairs and downstairs, up and down a mountain, and bring the curtain up and down at the end of the performance. SlvrSlprz@aol.com recalls the spoken part at the start (after Phil Harmonic's introduction):

    Placido: Ernie, my friend, where are you going?
    Ernie: Well, I'm going to sit down. (Does so)
    Placido: Good idea. (Sits down)


  • We All Sing With The Same Voice in .WAV format


  • "Weaver Bird" some lyrics online HERE. Sung by Joe Raposo: "Spin, little weaver bird ... build your house so high ..."


  • "The Wind" Just a guess on the title, this one was performed by Native American Indians. "Listen to the wind blow ... where does the wind go?"


  • "Windy" Sesame Street version of The Association's "Windy". Windy was a flying monster who actually did "bend down to give me a rainbow" ("Here's your rainbow, kid." "Thanks!" "It's nothin' ") and took a few spins around the town. Thanks to Mrs. Mishima for clearing it up.


  • "We're A Family" "We are a family, we love each other" ... "I have a sister" ... "Some live with their grandmother but, we are a family, we love each other".


  • "We're Friends" "And I know whatever I do, you won't like me less, 'cause you're a friend, a true friend, we're friends.", video is taken on a farm


  • "What Arms Can Do" sung in a nursery school setting by a black woman (Susan or Olivia maybe) and several toddlers. In the first two verses, everyone pretends their arms are rabbit ears and airplane wings, the third verse goes: "Here's another thing that arms can do, if I take one arm [stretches it out] and the other one too [stretches it out], I can put my arms around all of you [group-hugs the kids and says "GREAT BIG HUG!"] And that's another thing that arms can do."


  • "What Do We Do Before We Eat?" "Why don't we wash our feet before we eat? 'Cause we don't eat with our feet"


  • "Wonder Child" a Helen Reddy song from a mid '80s appearance. Some lyrics:

    Rainy days are bright for me
    And rainbows shine at night for me
    It's you, you taught me how to see
    You opened up the world for me
    'Cause you're a wonder child
    Living in a world that's all surprise
    And you make me see things through your eyes
    Wonder child, this I know
    It's no wonder that I love you so
    Wonder child, wonder child


  • "The Word Is No" all the lyrics are online here, but a visitor asks, was this a parody of an '80's song, possibly called "She's On The Go"?


  • "Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow" A Judy Collins song, may not have been sung on the show and I'm not even sure if that's the title or not. Big help, huh? Some lyrics: "Yesterday, today and tomorrow, time is something no one can borrow."


  • "You Got a Nose" "You got a nose, You got a nose but we don't care.... Can't waste all your time thinking 'bout your shnozz"


  • You're Alive in .WAV or .MP3 format


  • "You're Important to Me" "Important, you're important, you mean a lot to me"


  • "You're My Best Friend" from the video "Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game": "Nobody knows me better than you, You're my best friend, Faithful and funny trusting and true, You're my best friend, 'Cause you know what I like, Know how I feel, Know when I'm happy or blue"


  • Does anyone have a copy of the album, "Songs from Sesame Street"? It came out in 1972 and includes songs like "Feelin' Groovy", "Yellow Submarine", "Singing On a Star" and "Up, Up, and Away". I'm curious as to who actually sings these songs, muppets, humans or the original artists?


  • A plea from me for any SOUNDS you think I could use, they don't have to be songs even, I've had numerous requests for things like Bert's laugh, Ernie's "Hey-yo Bert", Grover's "Hey Kermee!", heck, even the cartoon typewriter guy's getting popular :-) ANYTHING!


  • Songs from "Follow That Bird"


  • Anything from Don Music other than his versions of: "Mary Had A Little Lamb" (Mary Had A Bicycle), Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Yankee Doodle and The Sesame Street Theme


  • Any Yip Yip Family sounds, without music


  • Images of the typewriter guy or other obscure characters (NOTE: Thanks to Rainbowceleste@webtv.net, I now have some pics of the typewriter here)


  • A video or tape copy of any of these songs: "Going To The Library", "Capital I" and "Ballad of Casey McPhee"


  • Anyone have a copy of when the witch from "The Wizard Of Oz" appeared on the show?


  • Who sings the part of the banjo-playing turtle in Green Grow the Rushes Go?


  • On the album "Born To Add", what song is "Me Going to Munch You, Munch You, Munch You" a parody of?


  • Were either John Lennon's song "Crippled Inside" or the song "Feelin' Groovy" ever played on Sesame Street?


  • Here's one I can't identify, sung by Big Bird and Snuffy apparently:

    The sister
    The brother
    The daddy
    The mommy
    All people
    Make a steak hot for you


  • A visitor asks, "Do you know where to get WAVs from Blade Runner or Sesame Street or Knight Rider in German?"


  • Mark Feldman (marksfeldman@msn.com), a self-proclaimed "Muppet crazed Generation X-er", would love to get his hands on any Sesame Street shows from the '70's on videotape PLEASE! He'll pay actual money and even offers a whole bunch of original Muppet shows to choose from for trading.


  • Ter Wisse (tervisions@yahoo.com), would love to get any Sesame Street shows (partial or whole) as recent as the 1980's. He offers to buy or trade for his small collection of old S.S. animation, Electric Company, or other rare 60's-70's shows/audio recordings he has.


  • Beth McDonald (beth_mcdonald@hp.com), would be thrilled to get her hands on some old Sesame Street videos and will pay cold, hard cash for 'em!


  • Jill Aanonsen is desperately seeking a copy of the album "My Name is Roosevelt Franklin" (1974 Children's Records of America).




    I appreciate any help on filling in the blanks on these. It's a simple dream really, becoming the ultimate Sesame Street Lyrics Archive, one that will be spoken of in hushed tones of reverence, that's all I ask, am I deluding myself here? :-) It's only through the assistance of all you wonderful fans with minds like steel traps that we've come as far as we have. Thanks again.


    Tiny Dancer (tinyd@sympatico.ca)

    For the love of Grover, drop me a line if you can help, please!


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