Arlo Guthrie - Garden Song Lyrics

What a talented entertainer!

Yup He's genuine cool.!

Right on!!

Thanks Woodie, Arlo And Pete for so much music.

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

loved that! first time I've heard it.

I've been lost since the world changed to metrics - so the Russians wouldn't have to pay for all those bushels of grains We sold to them cheap when Their crops were lost in the 1950;s. Yup.

Arlo, you're fantastic!

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

We need more people like Arlo 😃

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

Arlo... pulling de Weeds ,pretty sure Arol Heaven is Full o de Buds now I Know Stuff but its about the Song you dam Haters grow yo tomatoes...an shut-up

I'm not sure all of us understand this song presented by Arlo Guthrie the way he meant it to be understood. He was arguing against sameness all over the world. We each have our own particular culture. We should not change it to be uniform. You can't solve problems kilometer by kilometer. We have to solve our problems the way we started them: inch by inch. That young 20-year-old failed to understand our history. The uniqueness of each culture.

I shared this with my college math prof. who is from china.

I'm not sure all of us understand this song presented by Arlo Guthrie the way he meant it to be understood. He was arguing against sameness all over the world. We each have our own particular culture. We should not change it to be uniform. You can't solve problems kilometer by kilometer. We have to solve our problems the way we started them: inch by inch. That young 20-year-old failed to understand our history. The uniqueness of each culture.

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.

Love him, love him, love him.

I will never Forget Arlo Guthrie and his music

I will never Forgete Arlo Guthrie and his music

metric's still better though

Did you know Arlo is a Republican ?I mean, can you dig it MAN !!

Not any more, and it was only for a few years. He left that party years ago! He's an Independent now.

Arllo I love you but that hair is scary...............

I have always loved this song

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.

Haha - heard "Oprah watching from a tree"

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".

Arlo. America. (and I'm Canadian)

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

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

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 !

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.

I agree. Precious Friends is a great album!

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

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.

I sing this song every spring as I plant my garden

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

I love this song, well I live Arlo too

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.

We burned ourselves bad by not adopting Metric measure in the 1970s. Long past time to finish up that job.

love. this. song I. sing. this song

Love this song.  Thank you for posting

I love this song oll sing it with arlo

what? no stories and jokes in the middle which everyone loves but destroys the songs? oh wait....here it comes.......lol

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

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.

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

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.

What a joyful song. Love Arlo. 😍

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

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.

Love to sing this while working....

I love this so much !

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.

Rin Eric hello

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

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.

inch by. inch. row. by. row. lol. love. this. song

You Lucky Dog!

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

A White Man wot speeks Black REEEEEEEL gud.  Arlo is Tops.

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!

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

I'm trying to find the part where he explains "Coming into Los Angeles", with the 'illicit substance' on his person.  I had it on my old computer, before it got stolen, now I can't find it.  I have it on VHS, too, but no way to put it on the computer.

Aniyunwiya Ageya It's here on YouTube. Think it's titled "Arlo Guthrie Thanks the Narcs."

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

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

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!

David Mallett would approve, I think!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Love this!! Thanks for sharing!

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!

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

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!

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

its amazing how the 1969 video is better quality than this....

Right on!

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

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 ;-)

I LOVE ARLO!

Do you have the rest of this concert recorded?

Love Arlo!!
Great song as usual.

Arlo - you were in Canada - where we use the metric system! LOL

"Get a life!"

He is the best a real musician

@pearlzenith you're crazy... and your taste, its terrible. This guy is a goofball with probably the most annoying voice Ive ever heard.

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

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

Not sang with as much feeling as John Denvers version,sorry, missed the message out.

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!

@austintxnative ,

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

lol @ 7:25 ... my problem too XD

Fantastic...thanks for posting.

great-GREAT.

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