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Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW

Humor, wisdom & commentary by Peter Alsop on his award winning songs and stories; some for kids & families, some for teens and adults! peteralsop.substack.com

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10:10

Burning Times

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/08/20

BURNING TIMES is our 'Song To Chew' today, written and performed by Charlie Murphy, one of the strong clear voices of the early feminist men's movement. It's about the plight of women in Europe in the Middle Ages, who were labeled as witches by establishment men who feared the influence they had as community organizers. It's from my "Ebenezer's Make Over' album which is a story with songs by Holly Near, Geof Morgan and many other feminist writers. There's a wonderful, short book I recommend

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10:02

Chickens For Peace

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/08/13

Today's 'Song To Chew' is CHICKENS FOR PEACE, inspired and loved by thousands of children who want a peaceful world, but no one much listens to them, because they can't vote! We want to protect our loved ones from wars and violence, but when we don't explain scary things to children, it can create more anxiety for them. It's not easy, but it IS possible to talk with kids about serious subjects in safe ways without scaring them. This song is designed to do that by reframing the word, 'chicken',

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06:24

Five Moms And Three Dads

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/08/06

On this week's "Songs To Chew" we'll listen to my friend Tom Hunter's song, FIVE MOMS AND THREE DADS. It's on my 'Ebenezer's Make Over' album. Tom presents a different vision for how we can support a more caring and fulfilling society by allowing and supporting more diverse kinds of family groups. The traditional American 'nuclear' family, with two biological parents and their offspring, is what most of us learned, and considered to be 'normal'; whereas a bunch of adults, living communally

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06:13

Animal Crackers

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/07/30

Today's short, little 'Song To Chew' is called ANIMAL CRACKERS. It exemplifies how children act out their anger while they're playing. When angry, hurt or sad feelings aren't allowed to be expressed directly, they will surface again, often in less healthy ways. Healthy parents can set clear limits for children about what is okay and what isn't, and still allow kids to express all their feelings. When kids know they have 'safe parents', who won't let them 'go too far', it allows the kid to

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07:36

The One About The Bird In The Cage

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/07/23

The SONG we'll CHEW today, from my 'Asleep At The Helm' album, is "THE ONE ABOUT THE BIRD IN THE CAGE' written by Rutthy Taubb. It's about a man who keeps his "bird" in a cage, dependent on only him. He feeds her, owns her, says he's going to teach her how to fly, and to sing, but he will have to clip her wings. And she buys his story and loves him, but then wakes up to find that she is unhappy and her 'song' is gone. He angrily blames her. Somehow, she gathers the courage to stand up and

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07:58

Aaargh!

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/07/16

Our song today is called "AAARGH!", from my live concert album "Family Roles". It's for all the 'family heroes' out here in the world, often the 'first borns', who have learned to seek approval from our parents. We grow up feeling that we need to be perfect, but striving for perfection can become an obsession, and then everything we do becomes a test of our worth. We have to study hard and plan well, or we don't measure up, and when that happens, we feel like we've failed. Many of us even

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09:43

Peel Back The Skin

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/07/09

Our 'Song To Chew' today, PEEL BACK THE SKIN, was written by my friend Stuart Stotts. He sings for grown-ups and kids in schools about how we can help each other live happier, healthier lives. I really love this song because it makes a really important point. When we hurt ourselves, before we put on a bandage, we have to make sure the wound is clean, or it won't heal properly. And when I say "WE", I mean that when each of us faces the pain of our own old injuries, we become stronger. And

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09:39

You Ain't Been Doin' Nothin' If They Haven't Called...

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/07/02

Have you ever noticed how much 'name-calling' goes on when cultural and social change is in the air? I thought today we might chew on a Tedd Judd and Sandy Pliskin song I recorded on my "Ebenezer's Make Over" album. It's called YOU AIN'T BEEN DOIN' NOTHIN' IF THEY HAVEN'T CALLED YOU GAY! The form is based on a song written by Eliot Kenin back in 1982 called "You Ain't Been Doing Nothing If You Ain't Been Called A Red". Activists who work to make people's lives a bit more just and balanced

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08:39

Foolish Notion

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/06/25

Today we'll listen to a song written and sung by Holly Near, from our "Ebenezer's Make Over" album. She wrote FOOLISH NOTION in 1980, and it's still completely relevant today. Here we are, 40 years later, still asking the same, age-old question; "Why do we kill people, who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?" We'll chew on that idea after the song! I've never hit any of my children, (although I DO remember being spanked by my Dad!) Things can change! When we eliminate the

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06:24

Au Revoir

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/06/18

I have a friend who refuses to say "good-bye". She says "it sounds like we'll never see each other again!" So today's "Song To Chew" is AU REVOIR, from my "Uh-Oh!" album, because "au revoir" in French means "until I see you again!" Much less scary! Separation from someone we love, can bring up fears that we might not see that person again; that we might find ourselves all alone and abandoned! As social human creatures, we have deeply rooted fears of being left alone. Those fears usually go

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08:46

L.A. Freeway Song and Hey You!

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/06/11

On this week’s episode of SONGS TO CHEW, we have a couple of short songs to chew on. In my family of origin, we grew-up with a lot of 'teasing' and 'making fun' of each other. Everyone in our family was 'fair game' as a target, and sometimes we'd all laugh so hard that we'd start crying. Most often, our clumsy attempts at being clever, were just dumb and ridiculous, and a bit cruel, and we learned to develop a thick skin. As I grew older and wiser, I learned that when I tried to make myself

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08:09

Dyin' To Be Thin

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/06/04

Our 'Song To Chew' this week is called "Dyin' To Be Thin". I wrote it as the title song for a 1986 NOVA documentary on anorexia and bulimia that won an Iris Award for excellence. In the US, an estimated 8 million people suffer from anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorders and that includes at least three out of every 100 adolescent girls. "Dyin' To Be Thin" was used in a musical version of Aristophane's play "Lysistrata", presented at the Theatricum Botanicum in the summer of 2003. It

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07:49

Let's Trade Butts!

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/05/28

Today's Song To Chew from my Fan Club Favorites album, has been a big hit in junior high schools all across this country! It's called LET'S TRADE BUTTS, so of course, it's humorous. When teens are asked about their bodies, they often express self-criticism, and strong feelings of inadequacy, jealousy and shame. Our adolescent years are difficult because our bodies AND our role in society are changing. As teens we often want to look like someone else. We want some body part to be bigger or

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08:23

G-Gee Its Warm Out Here

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/05/21

Today our 'Song To Chew' is sung by an ecological activist, Snowy the Frostman! The kids and I are hanging out at the mall during the holiday season, listening to Snowy 'stutter-sing' his way through "G-GEE IT'S WARM OUT HERE" from my "Chris Moose Holidays" album. It's about climate change and global warming! "So why does Snowy the Frostman stutter?", you may ask. I think 'stuttering' sounds like 'shivering while you're talking', and because I work with many special-needs kids, I like my songs

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07:22

My Secret

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/05/14

Let's chew on the 'Wonderful Diversity of Human Sexuality' with MY SECRET, a song from my very first album. I often use humor in my songs to share tidbits of information that I've found valuable. This song is loaded with bad puns and exaggerations. We humans have a huge range of diverse sexual behaviors, many of which are common, but there are some secrets that people hide, out of fear that others may regard them as "not okay" or "weird, exotic, disgusting, sacrilegious, shameful, dirty,

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10:15

No One Knows For Sure

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/05/07

Today's 'Song To Chew' is NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE, about having hope when things look 'the darkest'. Hope is a very powerful force in our human world. Our attitude can limit us when we're negative about ourselves, but it can also expand and open doors for us, when we're optimistic and hopeful about our future. Our expectations actually have an effect on what does happen! One of the many wonderful stories I've heard about "No One Knows For Sure", is that it played a role in helping to save the

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08:47

You Get A Little Extra When You Watch TV

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/04/30

Today's Song To Chew is YOU GET A LITTLE EXTRA WHEY YOU WATCH TV, from my 1983 "Wha D'Ya Wanna Do?" album. It's about all the hidden messages delivered to us constantly through our televisions and internet. Commercials and news and sit-coms model for us how the rest of the world around us operates, right? But we see what the producers and marketers want us to see! Have you noticed how extremely 'happy' TV people are when they have a nice clean floor in their kitchen? Have you ever felt

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07:32

So Long

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/04/23

Today on 'Songs To Chew' we'll listen to a song called SO LONG, and talk about sadness and loss and grieving. We know that things in our lives have beginnings and middles and ends, and so it is with people. Leaving people, places and things behind can be scary and sad and exciting all at the same time. Sometimes leaving things or people that created problems for us becomes even more complicated, because they also provided us with some great stories and unforgettably joyous rides. Some losses

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08:13

Stick My Neck Out

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/04/16

Today's Song To Chew is called "STICK MY NECK OUT" from my "Grow It At Home" album. It's easy to spot things in our world that need to work better. When we see them, we say, "Hey! That's not okay!" But as kids we learned "Don't rock the boat! Mind your own business!" But I think, it IS our business to think up better ways to do things and speak up about how to fix 'em! If we don't do it, who will? And then we find others who feel like we do, and we've got a movement happening! A

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08:36

I Hope You Understand, Dear

Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW ·

2021/04/10

This week's Song To Chew is a pun-filled satirical song, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND, DEAR, from my 'Fan Club Favorites' album. It holds up some of our 'male behaviors' in the hope that we might see ourselves a bit more clearly. It's sung by remorseful man who tries to explain to his lover, why he's leaving her and going back home to his wife and family. But alas! Behaviors have consequences, and at home, (spoiler alert!), he finds that his wife has gone on without him! Glad you stopped by to

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