At 6 o'clock I roll my truck out onto the street

Morning sun is shining on the trash that I will meet

There's broken dolls and rubber wheels, TV sets and orange peels

Baby rattles, paper plates, newspapers and rusty skates

Oooh Oooh Oooh keep on truckin'

You gotta sort it, shred it, burn it to ash

There's a lotta hard work when you're workin' with trash

Take it to the terminal, dump it on a barge

Cart it someplace where it's awfully large

Ship it to a landfill where it decays

Cover it with dirt and make a park someday

You gotta compact it, compress it, recycle, and make less of it

Compact it, compress it, recycle, and make less of it

Oooh oooh oooh keep on truckin'

Oooh oooh oooh that's the garbageman's blues

We're running out of resources

Running out of space

Don't have room for all that waste

You gotta compact it, compress it, recycle, and make less of it

There's a million things that garbage can do

Recycling saves energy too!

Oooh oooh oooh keep on trucking

Oooh oooh oooh that's the garbageman's blues

Oooh oooh oooh keep on trucking