The Sesame Street Lyrics Quiz

It's always a sunny day on "Sesame Street," where the show's opening theme invites viewers to sweep the clouds away and take a few breaths of that sweet Street air. This tune has opened the show since its 1969 premiere, which means your parents probably know the lyrics as well as you do.

In "Bein' Green," Kermit the Frog laments how his particular hue can make it hard to stand out from all the other green in the world, from grass to trees and more. While this classic has been around since 1970, long-time viewers might remember Kermit performing a duet of "Bein' Green" with Ray Charles in a 1989 TV special.

According to "Sesame Street," it only takes a simple song to create a tune that will make all your neighbors want to join in. While Bob the music teacher and his pal Miguel first performed "Sing" in 1971, it actually became a mainstream hit when The Carpenters did a cover in 1973 that shot up the Billboard charts.

These lyrics come from the song "Nasty Dan," performed by none other than Johnny Cash himself on a season five episode. Cash sang the song to Oscar the Grouch, crooning on about how Dan ate nails for lunch and eventually married an equally offensive gal named Nasty Pearl.

Believe it on not, "Sesame Street" premiered the very same year that man first stepped foot on the moon, so it's no wonder lunar tunes appeared in many episodes. In season 15, a reflective Ernie determined that while he would be happy to visit the moon, making a permanent move would leave him lonely for his friends.

What would a bath be without a rubber duckie for company? Devoted "Sesame Street" fans will know that Ernie has maintained a tight bond with his favorite bath toy since the very first season of the show. The song was even nominated for a Grammy in 1971, but lost to another tune from the series.

This song devoted to the sounds of the Letter B actually got "Sesame Street" in hot water in the '80s. Northern Songs, who owned The Beatles catalog at the time, filed a lawsuit alleging that the tune was too similar to "Let It Be." Things were cleared up a few years later, when Michael Jackson bought the rights to the songs and licensed them to "Sesame Street" for a token price of $50.

It was Bruce Stringbean and the S Street Band who debuted "Born to Add" on a season 11 episode of the series. The parody of "Born to Run" by the Boss even managed to sneak in a reference to the Jersey Shore among its lyrics about counting and adding.

Look, when the sign says "Don't Walk," you have to wait to cross the street, OK? Even if you're a puppet waiting to marry your beautiful bride ... who happens to be waiting at the church across the street.

"We All Sing with the Same Voice" premiered on a season 14 episode of "Sesame Street" in 1981. Featuring a group of kids coming together on a playground in NYC, the tune reminded children that we can all live in harmony no matter our name, our looks or where we come from.

Bet you could guess that a Grouch who lives in a garbage can is a huge fan of trash in any form, from an old shoe to rotten fish to rusty musical instruments. This Oscar song dates back to the very first episode of the series, when our favorite Grouch was orange, rather than his trademark green.

"One of These Things is Not Like the Others" is a long-running "Sesame Street" classic that has taken on many variations. One common theme is that the singer usually asks viewers to spot what's different among a group of objects, letters, numbers or shapes before he or she finishes the song.

If we told you this was a Cookie Monster song, could you guess that the missing word is cookie? While the point of the song "C is for Cookie" is to list a bunch of stuff that starts with C, your favorite monster really only cares about one of those things, and it's not cars or cats. Of course, times do change, so even Cookie Monster had to learn that cookies are a sometimes food in a lesson from Hoots the Owl in season 36.

Long before parents were swapping punches in toy stores to score a Tickle Me Elmo, this furry red muppet was singing "Elmo's Song" on "Sesame Street." The song debuted in 1989, and Elmo even taught Big Bird and Snuffy how to substitute their names for his to make tunes of their own.

Billy Joel had a huge hit in the '70s with "Just the Way You Are," but he switched things up on this classic love song when singing it to Oscar the Grouch in an '80s episode of "Sesame Street." As Marlee Matlin signed the words, Joel admitted that being friendly just wasn't Oscar's style. Kermit and Sheena Easton also performed a duet of the tune in 1983.

"Sesame Street" had something in common with "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" in that both taught kids to recognize and celebrate the people who made up their communities. In this "Street" song, kids learn that the postman is "a person in your neighborhood, a person that you meet each day."

Any longtime "Sesame Street" fan knows that Bert is a huge fan of pigeons. In fact, he even attends the Pigeon Convention in Peoria from time to time. The first time Bert did his trademark pigeon dance was way back in the '70s.

A muppet band known as Little Jerry and the Monotones showed up in season six to sing "Telephone Rock" while cramming themselves into a phone booth and annoying the operator. It might be "the latest thing" according to the song's lyrics, but the operator was not impressed by the harassment, calling the cops to take the phone booth-cramming muppets to the slammer.

Grover saw a monster in the mirror in a 1990 episode of "Sesame Street," but your favorite lovable monster didn't let it bother him. He just made up a silly wubba wubba phrase because that monster was so silly. The tune is reminiscent of the classic 1971 book "The Monster at the End of This Book."

Smokey Robinson transformed his classic Miracles tune into a kid-friendly favorite in a 1985 episode of "Sesame Street." Paired up with a giant letter "U" puppet, Robinson did his best to stay clear of the very friendly Ms. U, who had quite a strong grip on the iconic singer.

"Sesame Street" always worked to help kids find their similarities rather than their differences, pointing out that even if we have nothing else in common, we are all Earthlings! The song was originally an Elmo tune, but got a breath of fresh air thanks to a 2002 performance by R&B artist Jill Scott.

Where else would a Caribbean amphibian like Kermit hang out other than a coconut tree? This mellow tune debuted in the mid-'80s and even got the Jimmy Buffett treatment in 1998 on the "Sesame Street Elmopalooza" special.

Legendary jazz band leader Cab Calloway was the perfect fit for "Sesame Street," as demonstrated by his season 12 appearance on the show. The Hi-De-Ho Man himself did a boppin' duet with a purple Two-Headed Monster with a backing band of muppets.

In his song "ABC-DEF-GHI," Big Bird declared that he would be the smartest bird in the world if he could ever learn to pronounce that 26-letter word that started with A and ended with Z. His trademark tune first appeared in season one of the show, and Big Bird also did a performance of the song on "The Flip Wilson Show" in 1970.

A family of four muppets known as The Honkers did their own beepin' version of "Honk Around the Clock" on a 1982 episode of the series. While the title sounds a lot like "Rock Around the Clock," the tune actually had more of a "Runaround Sue" melody. In later seasons, the Count often performed this song.

"What's the Name of This Song?" premiered in 1974 and was sung by the entire human cast, as well as Oscar and Big Bird. It showed up in various forms later in the series, its familiar "la de da de dum" chorus etched into the memories of generations of viewers.

Sung to the tune of "Hey Jude" by The Beatles, "Hey Food" was a "Sesame Street" tribute to all kinds of chow. Sung by Cookie Monster and a muppet band called The Beetles, the tune mentioned foods from meat to fish to cheese, bread and even veggies.

The Count ain't the only muppet who enjoys numbers; Big Bird was also a digit fan, as demonstrated in his song "I Just Adore Four." The tune debuted in 1975 as Big Bird hosted "The Number 4 Show" on a season six episode of the series.

Forget warm milk and sheep counting ... when Ernie needs to get to sleep, he gets up and dances! The song first showed up in the early '80s, with Ernie and his Boogie Woogie Sheep pals keeping poor Bert awake with all that singing and dancing.

Any "Sesame Street" fan knows that the show's resident vampire is a huge fan of counting. The Bela Lugosi-inspired Count first sang this song in the early '70s, when he was so eager to count that he knocked over Ernie's block pyramid so he could tally the blocks.

When you're a kid, you hear the word "no" a lot, a fact which "Sesame Street" acknowledged with "The Word is No" on a late '80s episode. The tune, which talked about all the time kids might hear this two-letter word, was first performed by human characters Gina and Mason.

If you really think about it, the moon kind of does look like a cookie, but this is especially true to Cookie Monster, who sees cookies everywhere he goes. In a 1982 episode, the big blue monster ponders whether he would eat a cookie moon or choose to leave it there to illuminate the sky. You might also remember a 2005 performance of this song when astronaut Buzz Aldrin made an appearance on "Sesame Street."

It's pretty hard to play a saxophone if you're holding a rubber duckie ... just ask Ernie, who learned this lesson via song in a 1986 episode. Elmo and comedian Ellen DeGeneres did their own version of the tune during season 27 in the '90s.

The classic "Mahna Mahna" song may sound like nonsense, but it's one of the more memorable songs to appear on the series. Jim Henson actually debuted this tune on a 1969 episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show," and it was also included in the premiere episode of "Sesame Street" that same year.

Sung to the tune of Madonna's "Material Girl," the song "Cereal Girl" tells the story of a female muppet who has never tried cereal before. Of course, with the very first bite of this breakfast favorite, the girl becomes an instant fan in this song that debuted in a 1990 episode.

Don't just go with the standard one, two, threes; If you wanna make friends on "Sesame Street," you gotta "Count It Higher." This song first appeared on a 1973 episode in season 5, where it was performed by Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats, with lyrics teaching kids to count all the way to 10.

"Everybody Wash!" is one of those "Sesame Street" tunes that has been around since the very first episode. Sung by Ernie with some help from Bert, it teaches kids to get clean all over, from kneecaps to tummies.

In "Wonderful Me," Big Bird celebrates all of his own best qualities. The song that debuted in a 1977 episode of "Sesame Street" teaches kids to recognize their own strengths and build their confidence and self-esteem.

Today's kids might not understand the concept, but there was a time when elevators had operators to make the lift go up and down safely. On a '90s episode of "Sesame Street," viewers met the Elephant Elevator Operator, who was so big that he couldn't actually carry any passengers with him inside the tiny space.

"Five People in My Family" first appeared on a season one episode of the series, when music teacher Gordon sang it along with a group of muppets. Since then, it's taken on a bunch of variations, including counting the five fingers on a hand, or the five members of a monster family.