The Grouch Song

"The Grouch Song" is a song that Oscar the Grouch  sings to let someone know that they would make a beautiful Grouch.

TV/Movies/Specials

 * Sesame Street
 * Episode 0534
 * Episode 3950
 * Episode 4072

Sesame Street Live

 * Big Bird 's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show.

Audio

 * The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-&-Record Album (1971)
 * Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella (1974)
 * Sesame Street Singles (single, 1976)
 * Muppet Masquerade (1978)
 * Platinum Too (1997)
 *  Oscar 's Trashy Songs (1997)
 * Just Friends (1997)
 * The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)

Publications

 * Sesame Street Songbook Vol. 2
 * The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems & Pictures (1983)

Lyrics
If ya wake up in the mornin' mean & grumpy

& ya frown at everybody that ya see

& if ya like your oatmeal nice & cold & lumpy

Then you're a Grouch like me 

If ya love it when it's wet & cold & raining

& the music that you like is all off key

If you're happiest whenever you're complaining

Then you're a Grouch like me 

If ya hate it when your Grandma kisses you

''Ya know what? Well me, too!''

If ya love to see a garbage  truck roll by

''Ya know what? So do I !''

& if ya think a great big pile of trash  is pretty

& that ice cream is yucchy as can be

If you can't stand a cuddly little kitty

Then you're a Grouch like me 

(Spoken with music still playing)

Ya know you're a Grouch if ya hate to smile & ya don't like anybody

else to smile either. & if ya love to see a truck splash mud all over

somebody's clean clothes, heh-heh-heh, you just might be a Grouch!

& if ya think a great big pile of trash  is pretty

& that ice cream is yucchy as can be

If you can't stand a cuddly little kitty

& ya'd like to chase her up the nearest tree

Then you can be pretty sure that you're a Grouch like me !