Takin out the garbage can be such a drag
There's some crusty old gristle hangin off a dish rag
That's sittin right on top by some moldy old beans
There's some long green goobers that smell mighty mean
Aluminum cans full of yellowish goo
Oozin over plastic caked with mildew

Well last night's news mixed with gravy glue
Was pasted to a melon and some doggy doo
Aluminum foil layin in a big glob of
Somethin green and fuzzy I started to sob
If I hadn't mixed it all in this bag
Takin out the garbage wouldn't be such a drag

CHORUS:

U huh, recycle, It's a better way
U huh, recycle, It's a better way
Recycle
I'm needin a solution to this throw away pollution
What can I do I got the garbage blues U huh

There's an old beer bottle that I couldn't see in
sittin right next to a rancid tuna tin
You know I looked inside somethin dribbled in my eye
It was brown and lumpy I started to cry
Dealin with the garbage is a terrible task
There's gotta be somethin I can do with this trash

(CHORUS)

Well I held my nose and I dumped out the bag
Separated what I could from the crusty dish rag
Long green goobers to the compost heap
Thrashin in the trash I was knee deep
All the paper and the cans every bit of the glass
Got recycled right out of the trash