Basura

Music by	Joe Raposo
Lyrics by	Luis Santeiro
Date	1985
Publisher	Sesame Street Inc. Jonico Music Inc.

"Basura" is a Sesame Street song by Maria in Episode 2157.

While bringing a bag of trash to Oscar the Grouch, she calls it "basura" - the Spanish word for "trash." Treating the bag like a tango partner, she opens it and strewns the contents around Oscar's trash can area while passionately singing about how it's like cash to Grouches and that they'd walk a mile for the stuff. "You know, sometimes I almost like the people around here," an enamored Oscar says while observing his new gains at the song's end.