I might not have much time to live So here’s a list of everything, I have got to give; To my mother, Rose Lynn Mann, I leave my whole collection Of specimens and research I’ve got organized outside Someday my scientific work will prove there’s a connection Between “The Beast That Roars” and why my […]
Archives: Songs
Costume Party
Cho:It’s a costume party, and everyone is here! It’s a costume party, and everyone is here! You wear a blue dress, you, red sneakers You wear a suit and tie You wear flowers, you wear stripes You put make-up on your eyes! Chorus You wear brown skin, you wear white Your head is clean and […]
Home Where The Heart Is
Home, Home, Home where the heart is Home, Home, Home where the heart is This is our home, the place of our birth This is our refuge, here on the earth This is our park, where our children play Our school and our churches where we come to pray These are our streets, and these […]
Liner Notes – River Of Life
LINER NOTES – River Of Life Produced by Peter Alsop – Engineered by Greg Hilfman Recorded at Barely Sound Studios, Topanga, CA Peter Alsop vocals, acoustic guitar, jaw harp, shaker Greg Hilfman piano, bass(5,10), tuba, drums, cello, vocals (2, glockenspiel James McVay banjo, slide & acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass(4,7,8), vocals (1), whistling Vocals: Shelby Flint […]
Topanga
TOPANGA – my home, where I think globally, act locally, love my family and friends, laugh, write, and remember the past so I have better tools to move into the future. TOPANGA Let’s live in a cave in Topanga (C7-C#7)-D7-F#6-G6 Just the place to be alone with you D7-G-G6 We could have a ball! C7 […]
Me And You
ME AND YOU – I don’t need you to “see it my way”, but I do need you to at least “see my way.” Me And You If you’d been through what (079900) I’ve been through (079800) If you grew up like me A(077699)-E(076900) Then you would do what I do A(077699)-E(076900) Instead of what […]
Just Capital
JUST CAPITAL – A woman on television stood with her grown children in the rubble of her destroyed home. “I wish I was dead!” she said, “I have no reason to live!” Horrible as it was, I felt someone had sold a ‘bill of goods’ to this woman about what was really important in her […]
Good Book
GOOD BOOK – Jamila Raqib works with Gene Sharp, whose books have been used by many organizers of recent non-violent people’s protests, helping them learn how to overthrow their dictators. GOOD BOOK Cho1: Read a good book, you should read this Good book if you live with a dictator! Read a good book, it can […]
We’re Here For You
WE’RE HERE FOR YOU – Feminist Women’s Health Centers in California and Atlanta provide complete health services for all women. I thought a Peter Alsop song might help them promote what they do so well. WE’RE HERE FOR YOU! (tune of Ya Get A Little Xtra) C Cho: We’re F-W (clap!) H-C G We’ve got […]
GMO Cafe’
GMO CAFE’ – Carol Koury went into a restaurant, ordered and asked whether the food had GMO’s, and no one there knew what they were GMO Cafe’ (Reggae) (capo3) Intro: Am-D-Dsus4-D V1: I asked my waitress “Do you know? Am-D This food include GMOs?” D-Am I saw her face, her eyes got wide Am-D She […]