Pigeons and Cookies and Trash

September 6, 2008 12:56 PM

What are the words to this Sesame Street Song? - We hear "Everybody loves [something], as sure as [something] loves [something], and googling for lyrics isn't helping fill in the blanks.
posted by Artw to Media & Arts (11 answers total)

Everybody loves something, as sure as Dad's mustache? That's what I hear, lol.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:03 PM on September 6, 2008 [2 favorites]

I got Dad's mustache, too, before I even saw TPS's answer.
posted by phunniemee at 1:09 PM on September 6, 2008

Yeah, I'm with ThePinkSuperhero. When you're rhyming "trash" a bunch of times, you're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel pretty quick.
posted by lore at 1:10 PM on September 6, 2008

Response by poster: (first [something] is "something". Overactive square bracketing there...)
posted by Artw at 1:41 PM on September 6, 2008

as sure as Beth/death must dash?
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:20 PM on September 6, 2008

I hear, "as sure as Dad's moustache," too.
posted by joannemerriam at 2:57 PM on September 6, 2008

As sure as that must pass?
posted by R. Mutt at 3:23 PM on September 6, 2008

on second listen... it sure does sound like dad's mustache. But hey its the Muppets, makes perfect sense.
posted by R. Mutt at 3:29 PM on September 6, 2008

Though googling "as sure as dad's mustache" comes back with just one result.... TPS's answer.
posted by R. Mutt at 3:32 PM on September 6, 2008

dad's mustache. Definitely.
posted by croutonsupafreak at 5:39 PM on September 6, 2008

Response by poster: I just want to thank all of you. I'm Artw's wife and our 22 month-old daughter always wants me to sing this song. It was getting more and more disturbing to me to sing 'as sure as death must dash' to her but I couldn't think of anything else.

Whether or not it is the right answer, I'll be trilling 'dad's moustache' from now on.

You metafilter people ROCK!

Heather
posted by Artw at 10:16 PM on September 6, 2008