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Release Date: 1979  (sav-man) 
Lyrics By: Bill Steele (sav-man) 
Music By: Bill Steele (sav-man) 
Produced By: Fred Hellerman (sav-man) 
Released By: Warner Brothers Records (sav-man) 
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  • Seeger has recorded other versions of this song; one version which he did w/ Brother Kirk can be found on the 1974 album PETE SEEGER & BROTHER KIRK VISIT SESAME STREET (they dedicated it, appropriately, to Oscar The Grouch). A more recent version can be found on the 1996 album entitled PETE. (sav-man)
  • This version of the song can be found on Pete's 1979 album CIRCLES AND SEASONS, and it features Pete's former Weavers bandmate Fred Hellerman on bass, xylophones and backup vocals! Hellerman produced the entire album as well. (sav-man)
  • America's favorite folksinger/musicologist/humanitarian sings about the different ways that Americans produce excessive amounts of garbage! A witty and insightful song. (sav-man)
  • Song Lyrics:
    Mister Thompson calls the waiter, orders steak and baked potato
    (Then) he leaves the bone and gristle and he never eats the skin
    The busboy comes and takes it, with a cough contaminates it
    (And he) puts it in a can with coffee grounds and sardine tins
    And the truck comes by on Friday and carts it all away
    A thousand trucks just like it are converging on the Bay

    Oh, Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage
    We're filling up the seas with garbage
    What will we do when there's no place left
    To put all the garbage

    Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac and winds it down the freeway track
    Leaving friends and neighbors in a hydrocarbon haze
    He's joined by lots of smaller cars all sending gases to the stars
    There to form a seething cloud that hangs for thirty days
    And the sun licks down into it with an ultraviolet tongue
    (Till it) turns to smog and then it settles in our lungs

    Oh, Garbage, garbage
    We're filling up the sky with garbage
    Garbage, garbage
    What will we do, when there's nothing left to breathe but garbage

    Getting home and taking off his shoes he settles with the evening news
    While the kids do homework with the TV in one ear
    While Superman for thousandth's time sell talking dolls and conquers crime
    (They) dutifully learn the date of birth of Paul Revere
    In the paper there's a piece about the mayor's middle name
    (And) he gets it done in time to watch the all-star bingo game

    Oh, Garbage
    We're filling up our minds with garbage
    What will we do when there's nothing left to read
    And there's nothing left to need
    there's nothing left to watch
    there's nothing left to touch
    there's nothing left to walk upon
    and nothing left to ponder on
    nothing left to see
    and nothing left to be but garbage

    In Mr. Thompson's factory they're making plastic Christmas trees
    Complete with silver tinsel and a geodesic stand
    The plastic's mixed in giant vats, from some conglomeration that's
    been piped from deep within the Earth, or strip-mined from the land
    And if you ask them questions they say "why don't you see?
    It's absolutely needed for the economy."

    Oh, garbage, garbage, garbage
    Their stocks and their bonds all garbage
    What will they do when their system go to smash
    there's no value to their cash
    there's no money to be made
    that there's a world to be repaid
    their kids will read in history book
    about financiers and other crooks
    and feudalism and slavery
    and nukes and all their knavery
    To history's dustbin they're consigned,
    along with many other kinds of garbage
    (artpaul)
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