The Sesame Street Songbook



The Sesame Street Song Book is a hardbound book of lyrics and music to Sesame Street songs by Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss, first published in 1971 by Simon and Schuster.

Contents include:


 * "Sesame Street Theme"
 * "AB-C-DEF-GHI"
 * "Circles"
 * "Five People in My Family"
 * "J Jump"
 * "I've Got Two"
 * "Kids"
 * "Right in the Middle of My Face"
 * "Song of Five"
 * "Up and Down"
 * "What Makes Music?"
 * "One of These Things"
 * "The People in Your Neighborhood"
 * "Everybody Wash"
 * "Goin' for a Ride"
 * "My Name"
 * "Rub Your Tummy"
 * "What Can I Do?"
 * "Surprise!"
 * "A Face"
 * "High, Middle, Low"
 * "What Do I Do When I'm Alone?"
 * "Someone Nice"
 * "Everyone Makes Mistakes"
 * "Bein' Green"
 * "Nearly Missed"
 * "Picture a World"
 * "I Love Trash"
 * "Walk Down the Street"
 * "Rain Falls"
 * "Sing"
 * "Someday, Little Children"
 * "Special"
 * "The Garden"
 * "Rubber Duckie"
 * "Somebody Come and Play"

Each song is accompanied by a simple line-drawing illustration. Although originally sold with a dustjacket, the cover-boards themselves were also illustrated.

Reissues




The Sesame Street Songbook is a book of 64 Sesame Street songs arranged for easy to moderate piano, voice, and guitar. The book includes a foreword by Joan Ganz Cooney and an introduction by Jeff Moss, discussing their memories of working on the show, and their thoughts on how music played a role in the educational content.

Song listing

 * 1) ABC-DEF-GHI
 * 2) All By Myself
 * 3) The Batty Bat
 * 4) Bein' Green
 * 5) Born to Add
 * 6) Breakfast Time
 * 7) C is for Cookie
 * 8) Captain Vegetable
 * 9) Caribbean Amphibian
 * 10) Counting is Wonderful
 * 11) Dance Myself to Sleep
 * 12) Doin' the Pigeon
 * 13) Eight Beautiful Notes
 * 14) Elmo's Song
 * 15) Everyone Makes Mistakes
 * 16) Five People in My Family
 * 17) Frogs in the Glen
 * 18) Fuzzy and Blue
 * 19) The Grouch Song
 * 20) Honker Duckie Dinger Jamboree
 * 21) I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
 * 22) If I Were
 * 23) If Moon Was Cookie
 * 24) I Heard My Dog Bark
 * 25) I Love Trash
 * 26) Imagination Song
 * 27) Imagine That!
 * 28) I'm Going to Get My Hair Cut
 * 29) It Sure is Hot!
 * 30) Keep Christmas with You
 * 31) Keep the Park Clean for the Pigeons
 * 32) Ladybugs' Picnic
 * 33) La, La, La
 * 34) Let's Go Driving
 * 35) A Little Bit
 * 36) Monster in the Mirror
 * 37) Muppets Rhyme in School
 * 38) New Way to Walk
 * 39) Octopus Blues
 * 40) One Fine Face
 * 41) One of These Things
 * 42) One Small Voice
 * 43) On My Pond
 * 44) Opposite Song
 * 45) Pat Pat Patty Pat
 * 46) Peanut Butter
 * 47) People in Your Neighborhood
 * 48) Proud to Be a Cow
 * 49) Put Down the Duckie
 * 50) Reach Your Hand Up High
 * 51) Rubber Duckie
 * 52) Sesame Street Theme
 * 53) Sing
 * 54) Sing After Me
 * 55) Skin
 * 56) Somebody Come and Play
 * 57) Tall Enough
 * 58) True Blue Miracle
 * 59) We All Sing with the Same Voice
 * 60) We Are All Earthlings
 * 61) What Do I Do When I'm Alone?
 * 62) What's the Name of That Song?
 * 63) When Bert's Not Here
 * 64) The Word is No

Second Edition
A new edition of the Songbook was released in 2007 by Hal Leonard Publishing, containing 40 songs:


 * 1) ABC-DEF-GHI
 * 2) All By Myself
 * 3) Bein' Green
 * 4) Born to Add
 * 5) Breakfast Time
 * 6) C is for Cookie
 * 7) Captain Vegetable
 * 8) Caribbean Amphibian
 * 9) Counting is Wonderful
 * 10) Elmo's Song
 * 11) Everyone Makes Mistakes
 * 12) Five People in My Family
 * 13) Frogs in the Glen
 * 14) Fuzzy and Blue
 * 15) The Grouch Song
 * 16) I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
 * 17) If Moon Was Cookie
 * 18) I Love Trash
 * 19) Imagination Song
 * 20) Imagine That!
 * 21) It Sure is Hot!
 * 22) Keep Christmas with You
 * La, La, La
 * 1) Monster in the Mirror
 * 2) Muppets Rhyme in School
 * 3) Octopus Blues
 * 4) One Fine Face
 * 5) One of These Things
 * 6) One Small Voice
 * 7) The Opposite Song
 * 8) Pat Pat Patty Pat
 * 9) Peanut Butter
 * 10) People in Your Neighborhood
 * 11) Put Down the Duckie
 * 12) Rubber Duckie
 * 13) Sesame Street Theme
 * 14) Sing
 * 15) Somebody Come and Play
 * 16) We Are All Earthlings
 * 17) What Do I Do When I'm Alone?