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| Music by | Philip Balsam |
| Lyrics by | Dennis Lee |
| Publisher | Jim Henson Productions, Inc. |
"Workin'" is a song about the importance of working, sung by the Fraggles in the Fraggle Rock episode "The Thirty-Minute Work Week" to motivate Wembley to choose a job.
Each Fraggle describes his or her own job: Mokey gathers radishes, Red cleans The Fraggle Pond, Gobo is an explorer, and Boober likes anything boring. Wembley isn't sure what he wants to do.
The song was re-recorded with a more "rock and roll" sound for its album releases. An "international" version of the song is shown in the documentary Down at Fraggle Rock, shifting between English, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
An early version of "Workin'" had Red working as a Pipebanger, Mokey harvesting "super berries" and feeding them to baby Fraggles, and Boober dusting the caves.[1]
Elements of the song resurfaced in later episodes as well. Strains of "Workin'" can be heard at the end of "Doozer Building Song" in the episode "The Doozer Contest," and Gobo sings a little song with the same tune as "Workin'" as he goes to retrieve his postcard in the second-last episode, "The Honk of Honks." Wrench Doozer mumbles the song in a scene from "The Voice Inside."
The song would go on to be reprised in the Back to the Rock episode "When Mokey Met Lanford," utilizing the arrangement from the album version.
Releases[]
- Audio
- Perfect Harmony (1986)
- Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets (1986)
- The Best of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock (2016)
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock - Season 2 (2024)
- Video
- Fraggle Songs Volume One (1983)
Sources[]
- ↑ Dennis Lee Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.