Need songs about Garbage and Recycling
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<bwg...@acad.drake.edu> wrote:
>I'm directing a program about recycling in around a week and have been trying
>to find a song that deals with the subject. If you know of one that would
>work for the introductory music, please e-mail your suggestion.
>Brian
There's a song Dr. Demento used to play, the title is something along the
lines of _Sylvia Stout_ ("... Sylvia Stout wouldn't take the garbage out...").
It goes on to describe the garbage piling up into the sky and getting pretty
extreme.
I've crossposted this to rec.music.dementia in the hope someone can help and
e-mail you the title or the lyrics.
-Dave
Sarah Ennals
Yes, it is by Shel Silverstein, My friend April has a copy. It's on
an album he put out of mostly adult songs, like "I Got Stoned & I Missed It",
& "I Saw Polly in a Porny".
Sarah E.
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Sarah E.
"That's beautiful. It looks like a screen saver."
Chris MacKay
Sarah Ennals
I think I know the Pete Seeger song you mean. Is it the one about the
San Francisco Bay, with the chorus that goes:
Seventy miles of wind and spray,
Seventy miles of water.
Seventy miles of open bay-
It's a garbage dump.
? I think he also did a similar song about the Hudson River.
Devo Spice
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><bwg...@acad.drake.edu> wrote:
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>>I'm directing a program about recycling in around a week and have been trying
>>to find a song that deals with the subject. If you know of one that would
>>work for the introductory music, please e-mail your suggestion.
>
>>Brian
>
>
>There's a song Dr. Demento used to play, the title is something along the
>lines of _Sylvia Stout_ ("... Sylvia Stout wouldn't take the garbage out...").
>It goes on to describe the garbage piling up into the sky and getting pretty
>extreme.
>
That would be "Sarah Synthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out", I
think by Shel Silverstein but I'm not sure.
I recently recorded a song called "Garbij Man" (pronounced Garbage Man, the
spelling is for rhyming purposes), that is a parody of "Method Man" by the rap
group Wu-Tang Clan, but it hasn't been released yet, and probably won't unless
I fix it up a bit. But if you want a copy of it email me.
Also, None Of The Above has a cool song called "Taking Out The Trash". (Taking
out the trash/ Gonna dump it on the ground/ No one was specific on where they
said to take it/ So I'm spreading it all around).
Can't think of any others off hand. I'll have to go through my collection and
look.
>-Dave
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Mark J. Rinehart
> In article <CxMw1...@vcd.hp.com>, dmu...@vcd.hp.com (Approach maximum loads with caution) writes:
> ><bwg...@acad.drake.edu> wrote:
> >>I'm directing a program about recycling in around a week and have
> >>been trying to find a song that deals with the subject. If you
> >>know of one that would work for the introductory music, please
> >>e-mail your suggestion.
> >>Brian
Haven't been following this thread, so this may have already been
mentioned, but the hughly obvious song about garbage is.........
Alice's Restaurant!!!
Mark
Phil Shirley
Don't forget these two from Sesame Street:
"I Love Trash" sang by Oscar the Grouch; the Dr. plays this sometimes
(chorus)
"Oh I love trash
Anything dirty or dingy or dusty
Anything ragged or rotten or rusty
Yes I love trash."
"Glop Glop Grungy Glug Garden" (that might not be the real title); sung by
Oscar and by a woman who used to be on the show (name?); this was on an
8-track we bought around 1970 (wish I still had it)
(one verse I remember)
You take a lot of trash and dump it
In the bottom of the sea
The octopuses and the oysters
Will complain to you and me
Now someday you might just get hungry
For a tuna fish frickasee [sp?]
And you'll have a glop glop grungy glug garden
Where the ocean* used to be.
*Other verses were about the playground and the flowers. The song begins
with the woman trying to get Oscar to pick up his litter off of the
sidewalk; by the end of the song she has convinced him to do so. (I
haven't heard the song in about 22 years--I was 6 then!)
Also, "Alice's Restaurant" by Alro Guthrie; I believe they get arrested
for dumping trash. For a stretch, you could play "Surfin' Bird" or some
other song by The Trashmen. Another stretch: "Happy Birthday" by Weird Al
has the line, "There's garbage in the water, there's poison in the sky /
It won't be very long before we're all gonna die."
That's all I can think of except what I 've already seen here. Sorry if
this is too late--I've been off of rmd for a while.
Paul Jay
speak)- United Artists UP 35676 release date 26-4-74 (we put the month
second in England). It is a song about re-cycling other people`s
records!, and so contains bits of other songs, carefully re-created by
Neil.- Eg- Take good care of my baby, White Christmas, In the mood etc.
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Carlos May
: <bwg...@acad.drake.edu> wrote:
: >I'm directing a program about recycling in around a week and have been trying
: >to find a song that deals with the subject. If you know of one that would
: >work for the introductory music, please e-mail your suggestion.
: >Brian
"The Garbage Man" by the Harlem Hamfats
"Call of the Freaks" has the vocal refrain "Stick out your can, here
comes the garbage man". Recordings from Luis Russell in the 30s thru
The New Leviathan a couple years ago.
"Any Rags" several recordings from teens thu 30s
Peter McGovern
>>I'm directing a program about recycling in around a week and have been trying
>>to find a song that deals with the subject. If you know of one that would
>>work for the introductory music, please e-mail your suggestion.
>>Brian
There's a GREAT song called "Garbage" on a recent (10 years old!) Pete Seeger
Album. I forget what the name of the album is but it is gold and has a
circular picture of him on the cover. I think it might be called "circle"
something or other.
Also, don't forget Tom Lehrer's great song "Pollution" from his "That Was The
Year That Was" album. The Pete Seeger song is really good though.
My wife tells me that there's a song by Tower of Power called "There's Only So
MUch Oil in the Ground" (she thinks). But she can't remember the name of the
album. She thinks it might be called "Urban Renewal". We, unfortunately,
moved recently and haven't unpacked our records!
Good Luck.
Peter McG
Gary Levine
because he took some of his songs to publishers and they told him
that they couldn't use his songs because he puts too many ideas into them.
He asked for guidance and was told "Listen to the garbage that's around--
that's what we want." The song was his response.
Its a fun number, pun-filled. Its on his "Evening with..." CD and was
featured on the "Song by Song" series, the program in the series that
featured his songs.
gary
G.LE...@PDNIS.PARADYNE.COM
please don't use the "r"eply feature
it doesn't seem to know me
Benjamin Young
camp-song or something... let's see if I can pull out a verse:
Don't chuck your muck in my dustbin, my dustbin, my dustbin,
Don't chuck you muck in my dustbin, my dustbin's full.
Then something like:
Fish, and chips and vinegar, vinegar, vinegar,
fish, and chips and vinegar,
pepper pepper pepper pot.
I have no idea why we would ever sing that song. I think it would come up
in the context of "99 bottles of beer on the wall," and the like.
Anyone have a name? (presuming we care...)
Ben
.sig says it has heard the words "backyard" instead of dustbin in some
versions, but .sig lies sometimes so watch out.
Franz Lemmermeyer
|>
|> > I think I know the Pete Seeger song you mean. Is it the one about the
|> >San Francisco Bay, with the chorus that goes:
|> > Seventy miles of wind and spray,
|>
|> Garbage Garbage Garbage Garbage
|> They're filling up our ______ with Garbage
|>
|> It's on the same album with "The Garden Song" that Arlo Gutherie sings at his
|> concerts.
Don't know that one, but here's one which is really about
garbage and recycling (from Together Again):
(Lee Hayes)
If I should die before i wake,
All my bones and sinew take
Put me on the compost pile
To decompose me for a while
Worms, water, sun will have their way
returning me to common clay
All that i am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas
When radishes and corn you munch
You may be having me for lunch
And then excrete me with a grin
Chortling "There goes Lee again"
I always loved that.
franz
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> I think I know the Pete Seeger song you mean. Is it the one about the
>San Francisco Bay, with the chorus that goes:
> Seventy miles of wind and spray,
>
daniel f etter
at my site, but how about Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would not take the
Garbage Out)? Shell Silverstein. (Forgive me if I've misspelled anything.)
Dan
Scot Leibacher
some fairly demented songs in his time) from the cartoon THE POINT entitled
THINK ABOUT YOUR TROUBLES that has a pretty cool recycling theme. Here
is the just of the lyrics (from memory....so please no flames for errors):
Sit beside the breakfast table, think about your troubles.
Pour yourself a cup of tea and think about the bubbles.
You can take a tear drop and drop it in the teacup.
Take it down to the riverside and throw it over the side,
to be swept up by the current.
And taken by the current where its eaten by some fishes
who are eaten by some fishes who are eaten by a whale
who grew so old, he decomposed.
He died and left his body to the bottom of the ocean,
and know everybody knows that when a body decomposes
it gives it basic elements back to the ocean,
and the sea does what it outta, and soon this salty water
(which ain't to good for drinkin') goes through a filter
and comes out of your fawcett where its poured into a teacup
as the water starts to boil......NOW! Think about YOUR troubles....
The cyclical nature of this song always appeals to me. I like the way
it presents a 'big picture' view then reminds us our problems may not
be that severe when taken in the context of life in general. Plus, its
just a cool song. This song is available on the soundtrack album for
THE POINT. I am not aware of it being on any of Nilsson's other albums.
-Scot Leibacher
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Greg Clark
BTW, that song is available on "Freakin at the Freakers Ball" by Shel
Silverstein. Remember, Stacy Brown got two!
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