Arlo Guthrie - The Garden Song - 1987

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  • Опубліковано 31 гру 2008
  • Here's my favorite version of the garden song, complete with Arlo's hilarious motivational speech and alternate verse. From a PBS program "The Arlo Guthrie Show". Sorry about the crappy video quality. Fortunately, the audio is Hi Fi.

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  • @cvcoco
    @cvcoco 10 років тому +42

    Nobody on the planet can tell a story the way Arlo tells a story.

  • @lindacook4032
    @lindacook4032 3 роки тому +20

    I love Arlo ..no one tells a story like him. I will never forget him.

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому +3

      Hello linda cook, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

    • @johncook30284
      @johncook30284 7 місяців тому

      Linda Cook John Cook commenting. I have a comment somewhere here. You saw Arlo two weeks ago? I saw him in 82 ~ approximately. I love Arlo Guthrie. Funnier than Jimmy Buffett. No, Arlo and Jimmy are different. Both funny Arlo Guthrie is storyteller and short songs. Check his fbi story.

  • @jtixtlan
    @jtixtlan 11 років тому +22

    I just love when he stops in the middle of a song to tell a story.

  • @ssully8542
    @ssully8542 7 років тому +95

    If there were more folks like Arlo in this world maybe some of our problems could be solved inch-by-inch.

    • @richardleaton9070
      @richardleaton9070 5 років тому +3

      You Hit the nail on the frog head my friend,wake up america!😉

    • @mymusic316
      @mymusic316 2 роки тому +1

      Amen!

    • @Nan-59
      @Nan-59 Рік тому +1

      Amen!! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

    • @Reata-fw3ky
      @Reata-fw3ky 9 місяців тому

      He's the greatest.
      I love the way he sings about things in life.

  • @RobMacKendrick
    @RobMacKendrick 2 роки тому +12

    A truly underrated artist. Had his moment in the 60s, then forgotten, except on Thanksgiving. But I've been listening ever since. An American treasure.

  • @rickoc6435
    @rickoc6435 5 років тому +26

    Thanks Woodie, Arlo And Pete for so much music.

  • @bobgarner44
    @bobgarner44 3 роки тому +5

    The whole UNIVERSE indeed. My garden included

  • @TheBetty818
    @TheBetty818 6 років тому +10

    I will never Forgete Arlo Guthrie and his music

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому

      Hello Katie Getman, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

  • @carolcoombe1824
    @carolcoombe1824 2 роки тому +3

    A family song for years and years from the Precious Friend concert with Pete Seeger. It is a blessing song. Love

  • @AmBotanischenGarten
    @AmBotanischenGarten 2 роки тому +4

    YAY This song means more than ever! Thank you Arlo! 12/2021

  • @karenhutchins4953
    @karenhutchins4953 6 років тому +4

    I have always loved this song

  • @38jrsygrl
    @38jrsygrl 3 роки тому +7

    Listening to this over and over!!! Arlo is delightfull!!!

  • @virginiatiger431
    @virginiatiger431 11 років тому +16

    I just saw Arlo in a solo concert two weeks ago and I hoped he'd do this song so I cold yell out "Hail to the inch". He is definitely carrying on the storyteller tradition. Thanks for posting this!

    • @johncook30284
      @johncook30284 7 місяців тому

      Two weeks ago? Me 82 ish with Pete Seeger.

  • @TheBetty818
    @TheBetty818 6 років тому +5

    I will never Forget Arlo Guthrie and his music

  • @RCPoems
    @RCPoems 11 років тому +4

    Its 2012 and i only just discovered how great Arlo is , love this !

  • @richardleaton9070
    @richardleaton9070 5 років тому +8

    We need more people like Arlo 😃

  • @talileali
    @talileali 11 років тому +9

    Arlo was one of the few redeeming things about the eighties! He was one of the last remaining torch bearers so to speak! I so love the message of this song! Thanks, Arlo! Peace!

    • @ikeane0
      @ikeane0 4 роки тому

      ❤❤

    • @sandieinatlanta9587
      @sandieinatlanta9587 3 роки тому +1

      1980's? No dear man, Arlo is the 1960's and beyond. This song is mid 1970's and Alice's Restaurant is about 1968 or so.

    • @kpokpojiji
      @kpokpojiji Рік тому +1

      @@sandieinatlanta9587 actually he is timeless...

  • @Nan-59
    @Nan-59 Рік тому +3

    Ohhh. The Memories!

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому

      Hello Nan '59, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

    • @danielcraft3727
      @danielcraft3727 5 днів тому

      Oh so bitter/sweet.

  • @MartinBermanGorvine
    @MartinBermanGorvine 2 місяці тому

    He is such a huge musical talent and so funny! I got a "Cameo" thing from him because I am so depressed. It was less than a minute long, but he chased my blues away for a precious moment with his humor. A giant of a man.

  • @kithope1
    @kithope1 2 роки тому +1

    Arlo did this rant when I saw him and Pete at the Vancouver World's Fair in 1986. Love it!

  • @cmahue1235
    @cmahue1235 5 років тому +8

    Leave it to Arlo. What a mind! Love it! 🤣♥️

  • @shanechostetler9997
    @shanechostetler9997 3 роки тому +4

    I love it! Especially the audience with cans of beer in their hands!

  • @TheMartinick
    @TheMartinick 10 років тому +5

    Just a a few weeks back had the pleasure of meeting Arlo after a concert. Joan Baez was there as well as Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Wavy Gravy. All four, together, made a memorable photo and autographs to boot! Won't forget that day, that's for sure! Cool folks!

  • @delihella
    @delihella 9 років тому +8

    Love to sing this while working....

  • @barbarawojtan4474
    @barbarawojtan4474 5 днів тому

    love listening to Arlo Guthrie singing a song that was originally written and sung by Pete Seeger and then John Denver when he was on Sesame Street !!! ----------- Arlo always has a story to go along with his version of the song !!! -------------- Arlo Guthrie songs and stories never get old !!!

    • @gitadasgupta7488
      @gitadasgupta7488 2 дні тому

      This song was written by David Mallett! Not Pete Seeger or John Denver. Please listen to Dave Mallett, singing the song that he wrote in 1975

  • @rineric3214
    @rineric3214 10 років тому +23

    I love this song like breath itself, but I never heard Arlo do it till now! Arlo, thank you so much! Especially for adding the word "mulch" to the lyrics. Mulch is how Mother Nature fertilizes, every time.

  • @j59111096
    @j59111096 8 років тому +5

    I remember watching this performance on PBS Channel 11 (Chicago) with my parents when I was a kid. The taped it on a cassette tape. I still have the audio in a box in my basement.

  • @cameronmalkoske8461
    @cameronmalkoske8461 8 років тому +9

    This has become my favorite version pf this song. Became reintroduced to Arlo just this year by an old friend. He is funny,
    talented and a true performer. The last verse completes this true classic which will endure through time! Congrats, Arlo !

  • @elainediamond7572
    @elainediamond7572 9 років тому +11

    What a joyful song. Love Arlo. 😍

  • @annemariegettys1
    @annemariegettys1 10 років тому +1

    i am so happy to find this...we had this and now i don't have him anymore...all my life Jim was giving music..and making sure that i could get to it when i wanted it...
    thanks.....i took his teenage son to see him...i forgot...i have to remind my son...Thanks Arlo!

  • @benjamindavid5681
    @benjamindavid5681 10 років тому +11

    Arlo: We went to Summer Music Camp together in 1962 in the Berkshires. What an incredible summer at a moment in history that you and I will always remember. I want to acknowledge the wonderful influence of your wonderful, talented, and loving mother -- Marjorie. We were just young teenagers. However it was a formative experience for all of us. It is wonderful how you developed into an artist. As you could remember you could hardly sing in those days. What a difference a few years made! Thank you for your music and work in reminding us all - as did your great father the basis of American democracy.

  • @slywlf
    @slywlf 11 років тому +7

    I ♥ Arlo - I was lucky enough to see him perform the Alice's Restaurant Revisited - if you haven't heard this new version you are missing out! This is my favorite version of the Garden Song too ;-)

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому

      Hello slywlf, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

  • @mollielambert9501
    @mollielambert9501 Рік тому +1

    I love Arlo ❤

  • @enidenvy
    @enidenvy 11 років тому +5

    in true Mainer form, I get terribly excited by anything that comes from here =)

  • @birgitnordmeyer6416
    @birgitnordmeyer6416 7 років тому +2

    Arlo is one of the best. Sometimes I can't stop listening to his music. Also for me, this is the best version of "The Garden Song".

  • @annemariegettys1
    @annemariegettys1 10 років тому +2

    it has been one and a half years....and i Know it takes time...but..shit...after 50 years with a man that loved music...my music...always for me...it takes time to let your love go...my garden is going thru changes also....Jasmine just opening up out of my bedroom window...and all along my porch...inch by inch...xoxoxox

  • @MK-ws4tw
    @MK-ws4tw 4 роки тому +2

    I. Love. This!

  • @virginiataylor5557
    @virginiataylor5557 10 років тому +8

    Great alternative verse at 7:30. "Everyone needs a different kind of inspiration". I love how he looked in the 80s.

  • @lindasheperd512
    @lindasheperd512 5 років тому +5

    Arlo, you're fantastic!

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому +1

      Hello Linda Sheperd, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

  • @loniduncan
    @loniduncan 5 років тому +4

    They need to make this in DVD. I had it on VHS. It was a great show.

  • @yasehtor
    @yasehtor 14 років тому +4

    I have had the good fortune to see Arlo twice live and appreciate his way of viewing the world through his songs. Thanks for adding this video. Made my day!

    • @johncook7281
      @johncook7281 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe the 'hedgehog song.' His drummer Terry liked to take pictures of any hedgehog he sees. It's on UA-cam somewhere.

    • @johncook7281
      @johncook7281 2 роки тому +1

      Made my day good too.

  • @gogreen1951
    @gogreen1951 6 років тому +4

    Love him, love him, love him.

  • @lyndalaury5060
    @lyndalaury5060 2 роки тому +2

    you know Arlo I have been following you for years and years and so has of my husband and he wanted me to sing from Alice's Restaurant Amazing Grace and your voice is so awesome so I did thank you very much for a touch of moment amen

    • @lyndalaury5060
      @lyndalaury5060 2 роки тому +2

      you are such a beautiful voice God bless you I love you Arlo for years and years and years and so did my husband thank you

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому +1

      @@lyndalaury5060 Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

    • @danielkosta3134
      @danielkosta3134 4 місяці тому +1

      ​​@@guthriesfirstson2630 I garden and love this song. My lady and I have seen Arlo in concert 4 or 5 times. The best was at the Woodstock (Illinois) Opera House. Just Arlo on stage sitting on a stool and his son playing keyboards. He always interrupted the songs with stories and we loved every minute of it. Once he wanted to tell s story rather than do a song and he said," I know I'm supposed to be singing but you can't always be doing what you're supposed to.". Brought huge applause. He also did City of New Orleans which is one of my all time favorites . Still one of the best concerts we have ever seen. Thank you Arlo!

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 4 місяці тому +1

      @@danielkosta3134 Thanks forthe love and continued support for my music all these years 🤝

  • @TriggerArizona
    @TriggerArizona 3 роки тому +1

    Here Here!. Lauren Cardone will love this song.

  • @jenflights
    @jenflights 8 років тому +6

    Fantastic, wonderful, and super cool...Thanks for sharing this with us 😇

  • @epb50
    @epb50 14 років тому +4

    Fantastic...thanks for posting.

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому +1

      Hello Ellen Broughman, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

  • @woodiethompson526
    @woodiethompson526 4 роки тому +2

    What a talented entertainer!

  • @suitelysymphonic
    @suitelysymphonic 10 років тому +2

    I LOVE this segment and song! I used to have it on VHS, but it deteriorated very badly. I am so glad to find it again here -- THANKS!

  • @kandylangford5886
    @kandylangford5886 8 років тому +28

    Sorry, but Arlo still cracks me up...after all these years.

    • @kathleenb1947
      @kathleenb1947 7 років тому +2

      No need to be sorry. You find him funny. Get this! I find him PROFOUND! Honest. These are words to live by... instructions for life. I can't tell you how many times I refer to this song... for my garden, my body, my mind, my spirit, society, our mother Earth. AND he cracks me up too. I love his sense of humor.

    • @francismorgan4093
      @francismorgan4093 6 років тому +3

      I sing this song every spring as I plant my garden

    • @parksplace7
      @parksplace7 5 років тому +2

      @Kelli Kellogg Yes! He was very nice to my whole family a few years ago. Would like to see him again!

    • @ginagray8040
      @ginagray8040 3 роки тому +1

      He’s hilarious and adorable 🥰

  • @starfire746
    @starfire746 5 років тому +1

    Arlo touches of people who hate gardens. There are people who hate gardens. In 1976 my neighbor come over towards the fence. The first thing he said to me he hated people who had gardens. Guess what? The second week of July 1976 a stranger had come over to my residence. It was the town inspector. He stated that someone reported me for having a garden. He checked the garden and told me there was nothing wrong. I knew it was my neighbor who had a lot of time on his hands to report. The inspector had nothing else to do but to come over my place to check the condition of my garden. During those years I had to watch myself. This S.O.B. neighbor was also finding fault with other neighbors as well. It was not long after they moved. It was a blessing.

  • @glynhughes9816
    @glynhughes9816 10 років тому +7

    This is really a quite boppy or foot tapping song. I like it.

  • @hoskinmage
    @hoskinmage 12 років тому +2

    He is the best a real musician

  • @cjc4765
    @cjc4765 Рік тому

    My favorite entertainer of all times and I had so many chances to meet him in Vero and even when he was in Texas in 2005 or 6 doing a concert and I never made it. UGH!! What a performance this was! Just great!

  • @TheMartinick
    @TheMartinick 13 років тому +2

    This is a great video. Just saw Arlo this past weekend. Great concert and we all had a wonderful time. Arlo is just super! LS

  • @gailwilliams2678
    @gailwilliams2678 10 років тому +6

    I think I'm in love! Love the song and the rant! Very cute and funny.

  • @nicktighe3093
    @nicktighe3093 Рік тому +2

    this is one of my favorites by arlo. annother one is im changing my name to chrysler. he was one of the first singers at woodstock

    • @kpokpojiji
      @kpokpojiji Рік тому

      The Chrysler song is more relevant today!

  • @nastyroach8940
    @nastyroach8940 2 роки тому +1

    “I know what I’m talking’ about!” Lol

  • @art2liv4
    @art2liv4 6 років тому +1

    I'm not a gardener and don't particularly like this song, but I signed on to like this video because it made me laugh and reminded me what a treasure Arlo is.

  • @megarouge6417
    @megarouge6417 9 років тому +11

    I saw him onstage right around this same time, and at that performance he got sidetracked by the lyric about the crow. "Crow's got his hungry eye on me.... How come he's not lookin' at what's in the garden?" And it led to a new verse explaining how crows knees are skinny and only bend one way, and that would be the best way to incapacitate a crow that tried to eat you.

  • @evapalosdelarosa2904
    @evapalosdelarosa2904 2 місяці тому

    Love this song ❤😊

  • @rongitzendanner5513
    @rongitzendanner5513 6 років тому +2

    Arlo has another version, a different speech for kids, it's absolutely hilarious. Wish it was still posted>

  • @carol1938ann
    @carol1938ann 11 років тому +3

    What a delight! I had no idea Arlo was sooo funny! Thank you thank you!

  • @Pangael
    @Pangael 14 років тому +3

    @austintxnative ,
    Arlo singing a song by David Mallet - from Maine - resonates with those of us from Cut & Shoot, Texas, too!

  • @GottliebGoltz
    @GottliebGoltz 4 роки тому +3

    Yup He's genuine cool.!

  • @jimhentges3043
    @jimhentges3043 11 років тому +3

    I often have another page open and just listen to Arlo...this is such a treat! ! ! !

  • @CarlosAugustoVidigal
    @CarlosAugustoVidigal 9 місяців тому

    Excellent piano 🎹 harmony

  • @hopeforcleanwater
    @hopeforcleanwater 9 років тому +4

    I love this so much !

  • @robin4400
    @robin4400 12 років тому +2

    Love Arlo!!
    Great song as usual.

  • @frankenboston
    @frankenboston 10 років тому +3

    this is a good representation of this time period. and how fear and projection , are one of many fear driven behaviors

  • @jolenec461
    @jolenec461 11 років тому +3

    Love this!! Thanks for sharing!

    • @guthriesfirstson2630
      @guthriesfirstson2630 Рік тому

      Hello Jolene Conner, Compliments of the season to you. I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️

  • @ethelpepper
    @ethelpepper 8 років тому +3

    I love this song, well I live Arlo too

  • @shaneguide
    @shaneguide 11 років тому +2

    A great version of this song written by Mainer Dave Mallet. Dave has written a number of great songs...

    • @gerrytighe5716
      @gerrytighe5716 2 роки тому

      Clancey and Makem have the definite version of this song

  • @johncook30284
    @johncook30284 4 місяці тому

    Agreeing with cvcoco. And I Saw Arlo in 82.
    And i've been following him since the early seventies. Woody -This land is your land' since sixty-eigh(t?)

  • @dwbogardus
    @dwbogardus 2 роки тому +3

    If this song (and story) doesn't immediately get you smiling and laughing, you don't have a pulse! (I also liked John Denver's version with The Muppets.)

  • @21peartree
    @21peartree 11 років тому +1

    I LOVE ARLO!

  • @albertthayer6183
    @albertthayer6183 4 місяці тому

    I had the honor of rocking my new baby to sleep at an Arlo Guthrie concert, to Alice's restaurant circa1990

  • @mymusic316
    @mymusic316 2 роки тому +1

    Love this! Funny but sort of true...

  • @thespeez
    @thespeez 15 років тому +3

    Ya gotta love that line "It's in American!"

  • @faegrrrl
    @faegrrrl 4 роки тому +2

    Right on!!

  • @christinedureau3467
    @christinedureau3467 5 місяців тому

    Such a wit!

  • @ann275
    @ann275 5 років тому +2

    loved that! first time I've heard it.

  • @faegrrrl
    @faegrrrl 11 років тому +2

    Right on!

  • @ericmesser1
    @ericmesser1 3 роки тому

    Brilliant

  • @Ais48
    @Ais48 8 років тому +10

    Sure needed that . Had a good laugh and a few tears. Just came off fb, which is very depressing, full of republican and christian right hate and vitriol, and now I don't feel so bad. Gonna listen to some more Arlo, and thank you for sharing.

    • @trry699
      @trry699 6 років тому +1

      Post some of his music on there to change the vibe.

    • @BrutishYetDelightful
      @BrutishYetDelightful 6 років тому +2

      What's funny is Arlo is a registered Republican. He says that the world has plenty of Democrats like him and what's needed is more Republicans like him. And yet again, my hat's off to Arlo for making a whole lot of sense and doing so with a delightful tune.

  • @beverlypollack1745
    @beverlypollack1745 8 років тому +10

    Love this song. Thank you for posting

  • @wistoncap
    @wistoncap 13 років тому +1

    Ive seen Arlo 4 times, but not since around 1987(ish), that has to be fixed ASAP!!

  • @richardmzid3374
    @richardmzid3374 5 років тому +2

    I'm disturbed facing the facts I can't be in bethel woods for the 50th for woodstock, please thank arlo for razin

  • @NewsHistorian
    @NewsHistorian 2 роки тому +1

    Are we sure Arlo Guthrie is not related to Dave Grohl? Two national treasures.

  • @louswire
    @louswire 10 років тому +3

    Sorry... at the risk of sounding Canadian... I sing along where I can. This has always been a favorite song of mine.

  • @z105zs
    @z105zs 14 років тому

    great-GREAT.

  • @arcadiaberger9204
    @arcadiaberger9204 23 дні тому

    Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow
    Work the soil and the slow 'till we make it fertile ground
    Inch by inch, row by row, God bless these seeds I sow
    Mars warm them from below, 'till the rain comes tumbling down
    Digging frost, crushing stone, Gonna make this world our own
    Fertilize it with our bones, Put our life into the land
    Mirrors shine, comets fall, Mars awakens at our call
    Lots of work, but worth it all for a planet made by hand
    Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow
    Work the soil and the snow 'till we make it fertile ground
    Inch by inch, row by row, God bless these seeds I sow
    Mars warm them from below, 'till the rain comes tumbling down
    Mars is dry, and awful cold, and the soil is awful old
    Superoxides won't unfold 'till you talk to them just right
    But we endure, we persist, old Mars just can't resist
    Life works like an alchemist with water, air and light
    Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow
    Work the soil and the slow 'till we make it fertile ground
    Inch by inch, row by row, God bless these seeds I sow
    Mars warm them from below, 'till the rain comes tumbling down
    And the rain will fall on Mars, and the crops will grow, and Martians will gather and sing the old songs, and remember the people who created them, and the people who preserved them and carried them to new worlds, along with Earth's other seeds.
    Because Octavia Butler was right:
    It is the destiny of Earthlife to take root among the stars.

  • @donaldzahnke4300
    @donaldzahnke4300 8 років тому +1

    love. this. song I. sing. this song

  • @marioriospinot
    @marioriospinot 9 років тому +1

    Nice.

  • @annemariegettys1
    @annemariegettys1 10 років тому

    here you go...inch by inch...

  • @WingchickWindyWarren
    @WingchickWindyWarren 9 років тому +9

    " "Tomato" plants" ..... hahahahahahahaha...

  • @yourturn777
    @yourturn777 4 місяці тому

    💘☮️

  • @gilliancarson6522
    @gilliancarson6522 Рік тому

    I just realized that years ago, as a teenager, I fell prey to the cult of Arlo Guthrie 💜

  • @wimmieondatrack271
    @wimmieondatrack271 2 місяці тому

    😢

  • @eddyviscosity2363
    @eddyviscosity2363 7 років тому

    Arlo. America. (and I'm Canadian)

  • @nickl5743
    @nickl5743 8 років тому +5

    I don't think this is the best recording of Garden Song. In general I would say that the one that made it onto Precious Friend is better. But Arlo's discussion on this one (despite being anti metric :-)) and the last verse makes it absolutely worth it. I think everyone has felt like that last verse, the first year or two they started gardening. Especially the first year they grew zucchini.

    • @dshaw110
      @dshaw110 8 років тому +1

      I agree. Precious Friends is a great album!