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BARNYARD SWEETS                       (Not currently available for sale)                          

 

I Got No Kick                                  It’s No Fun To Be A W.A.S.P. Anymore

Dream Song                                     Hittin’ The Road

Alive                                                  I Love Gettin’ Toaded

The Queen                                        Whole Hog Love

Hot Top’s Song                                Wouldn’t You Like To Be Rich!?

The Ballad of Bunny GaLore        Don’t Sit Back                 

        

 

I GOT NO KICK

 

I got no kick!

My feet trip me when I walk

I got no kick!

Some times I dribble when I talk

 

Now I can’t bare to watch my hair

Fall slowly to the floor,

My rug looks like me,

Bugs won’t even

Bite me anymore!

 

I got no kick!

My eyelids click and I see spots!

I got no kick!

I fergit and pick my nose a lot!

 

All my skin has worn so thin

I have to wear tight clothes

Cause it’s no fun to leave my organs

Everywhere I go!

 

I got no kick!

(Cough!  Cough!)

I got no kick!  I got no kick!

 

I got no kick!

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1974, Moose School Music (BMI)

 

 


DREAM SONG

 

Nuclear reactor flowing

With Atomic Waste

Twenty thousand years it’s glowing

What if it escapesssssssssss!

             

Radiation – is coming to get me

It’s burny and it’s bad and it’s blowing my way

Radiation – it’s hot and it’s cold, it kills young and old

Now it’s over, life is over!  It’s over, I’m told –

 

Solar energy could save us

But I’m growing sick

No more time, the sun is fading

Over much too, over much too, over much too

Quick!

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1975, Moose School Music (BMI)

 

ALIVE

I ride through the circus

I open my eyes

Laugh at the lions

The clowns make me cry

The ring master sings

He’s as crazy as me

Life is so full

If you look you can see!

 

Alive.  I’m alive!

With a love for the jugglers I know

Though there’s doubts when the acrobats

Leave me alone

Alive, and afraid

That the freak show is me

Alive with a will to break free!

You can see

I’m alive.

 

I’m alive.

So alive – Thank-you!

I’m alive!

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1975, Moose School Music (BMI)

 

THE QUEEN

 

The Queen, she craves my body

But her face gives me the hives

I know she’s somewhat odd beee- causzzzzz

She eats her mateszzzz alive!

 

She say’s she’ll never harm me

But her fetisheszzzz alarm me

I know my stinger’s much too small

For her Coronation – Ball!

 

The Queen, she craveszzzz my body, well,

You can’t fight, City Hall!

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1975, Moose School Music, (BMI)

 

HOT TOP’S SONG

 

Cock-a dooooo, de doodle de dooo!

Yeah!

Cocka, cocka, cocka

Said-a cocka, cocka, cocka,

Cocka, cocka, cocka,

Cocka doodle de doo!

 

Feels so good!

Struttin’ and a-steppin

Checkin out the yard,

Just a-cuttin’ and a-heppin’

 

Mornin’ Cow!  Hey!  What’s happnin’ Pig?

Check m’new spats!  Loose, but not too big

And my new green tail feathers,

Mmmmmm – brand new!

I’m gonna have to clue all you little chicks to my

 

Cocka, cocka, cocka

Said-a cocka, cocka, cocka,

Cocka, cocka, cocka,

Cocka doodle de doo!

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1975, Moose School Music, (BMI)

 

THE BALLAD OF BUNNY GALORE

Chorus:

I’m just a couple of bucks behind this week

I’m just a couple of bucks behind!

Hop on up to my hutch sometime

I’m just a couple of bucks

I’m just a couple of bucks

I’m just a couple of buck behind!

 

This girl knows what it’s all about

Bein’ broke is a habit I hate

If you’re a “million-hare” I’ll take your

Ten carrot diamond

If you’re crooked, I can make you straight

 

Now the Easter Bunny is my main man

Lucky foot, bucky teeth, pink nose

Well I love holdin’ his Easter eggs

And he loves buyin’ my Easter clothes

 

Chorus

 

Now there is Thumper, there is Jumper

They are hoppin’ little humpers

And the March Hare comes up too

And Hopsey and Mopsey

Who are both a little flopsey

Cause their rabbit habits have withdrew

 

I fix Cottontail’s heater

Jack the rabbit’s brother, Peter

Bugs Bunny and his funny friends

All the Briar Patch desires me

Hugh Heffner tries to hire me

But all his bunnies, hah!

They just pre-tend!

 

Chorus

 

(Say Bunny hug, is that a carrot in your pocket, or are ya just glad t’see me!)

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1973, Moose School Music, (BMI)

 

 

 

IT’S NO FUN TO BE A W.A.S.P. ANYMORE

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore

All our privileges have vanished into air

All the power and the glory

All the glamour and the fame

Have slipped right through our fingers

They will never come again

And W.A.S.P.s are not genetically designed to be so poor

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore

 

All W.A.S.P.s are born with psychoanalysts

No one gets a-head without a shrink

We’re economically the best

We’re better looking than the rest

In a suit without a vest, I look undressed

Now don’t you think?

 

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore

There’s no one left to colonize

No one likes the ethnic jokes that I have memorized

They sit with sullen faces hoping I’ll apologize

And I get the dreadful feeling

That they think I’m a bore!

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore.

 

(Spoken:  Why do moths have shrugged shoulders and flat foreheads!

I don’t know, why do moths have shrugged shoulder and flat foreheads?

Because when you ask them a question, they go like this, (shrugs shoulders)

And when you tell them the answer, they go like this!  (slaps forehead)

 

It was so easy to identify an Aryan

They came from Arlington or Brentwood or from Darien

But the others (who all hate us!) have begun to emulate us

And it’s bound to dissipate us if we marry ‘em!

 

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore

All the others that we’ve helped have turned on us!

And they bite the hand that fed them

A culture they could trust

When we simply could have left them playing

In the underbrush!

Now they play our game much better

Than we gave them credit for!

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore.

It’s no fun to be a W.A.S.P. anymore.

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1974, Moose School Music, (BMI)

 

 

 

 

 

HITTIN’ THE ROAD

 

I work on a farm, I take things in stride

I don’t horse around, and I’m stable to ride

I eat hay and oats, then I help fertilize

Deep inside I’m a race horse, with no place to go,   so

 

I’m hittin’ the road, I’m off to the track

I’ll be a big winner, or I won’t come back

Out on the cinders, where I want to be

I’m a-hittin’ the road, no more farmin’ for me!

 

The Kain-tucky Derby will be my first win

I’ll “stir-rup” the dust, and the coins’ll “rein in”

With a pure silver feed bag strapped under my chin

For good luck I’ll wear horse shoes of gold!

 

Chorus

(If they ask me to stay, I’ll have to say “neiiiiiigh!”)

  

My agent will call me with contracts to sign

I’ll plug Mustang and Maverick and Pinto this time

“Hello Colt 45?  Will you please hold the line?

Y’see this here farmer wants his wagon towed, …

(It really goes against my grain, y’know?)

 

Chorus

I’m a-hittin’ the road, no more farmin’ for me! 

(horse-lips - ahem, caught a chest colt, last night, so I’m a little hoarse today)

(that makes me feel so sad-dle break down and cry)

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1973, Moose School Music (BMI)

 

 

 

 

 

I LOVE GETTIN’ TOADED

 

Croak out any question

“Frog-o-sophical” or not

An’ I’ll smoke out an answer for you

Right here on the s-“pot!”

If m’logic gets dis-“jointed”

An your question gets forgot, it’s 'cause

 

I love gettin’ toaded

I am, all the time

When I plunk my magic twanger

I am, feelin’ fine!

When m’feet feel neat beneath me

I am, sure that I’m hoppin’

High enough to keep my sea-“weed” dry!

 

Just in case,

You should call me on the phone

If I start talkin’ funny

If I whisper, if I moan

Well I ain’t dyin’, I’m just tryin’

T’hold in my home-grown!

 

Chorus

 

It’s too bad

The way the truth distorts

Lots of folks believe in

Them government reports

That say that gettin’ toaded webs your toes

And gives you warts!   (Who cares!?)

 

Chorus

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1974, Moose School Music (BMI)

 

 

 

WHOLE HOG LOVE

 

All my life, I've been wallowin' in sin

A-rollin' and a squooshin' in the mud of my chagrin

So caked with all this evil, I never “sau-sage” skin

But the lord, He’ll take me like I am, that's why

 

Chorus:

I got a whole hog love

Got a whole hog love

Got a whole hog love of the Lord

(Now listen)

 

It ain't been easy, no sometimes my life's a boar

I been a rootin' and a-diggin' ‘cause I believe there's something more

Than ending up as chittlin’s hangin’ on that Devil’s door

I been “bacon” the lord t’take me like I am, like I (h)am, like I ham!

 

Chorus

 

He's the Old Farmer, runs that pig-pen in the sky

And He pickles all the pigie feet, as they come marchin' by

And his “souiee-souiee-souieeet chariot, will take me to his stye

I been “bacon” the Lord t’take me like I know the ham, like I ham

 

Chorus (2x)

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1972, Moose School Music (BMI)

 

 

 

WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO BE RICH!?

 

Let’s hear a cheer for free enterprise

Where all the workers do their best

They feel pride every morning when they rise

With the sweet smell of industry

Swelling every breast!!  (cough, cough!)

 

No one’s truly happy

We all do things we don’t like

And understand there’s no one there

To hold your hand through life

So if you have to “step on toes”

Better someone else’s, than yours the saying goes

Grab it while you can, or you’ll come up empty handed

No one likes a loser, they love winners who have dough!   Soooo,

 

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!

You could buy the things you like

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!

Call them “my things”, and you could try things,

Sneaky sly things

And pull them off without a hitch

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!

You can justify things when you’re rich!

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!

 

There’s nothing wrong with money

It can make good dreams come true

The more you have, the more you get

The more good you can doooooooo!

Buy food for starving youngsters

Buy old folks rocking chairs

Buy banks and oil companies

Make profits selling shares

Buy a CB!  10-4!  10-4!

Buy some albums by John Den-for!

Buy up gold and buy up art!

Stock up vital body parts!

Buy a car, a plane, a boat!

Buy a politician’s vote!

Buy a cop, who’s not expensive!

Buy a face that’s less offensive!

Level mountains!  Ruin streams!

Finance all your wildest dreams!

 

Oh, wouldn’t you like to be rich!?

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!?

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!?

Wouldn’t you like to be rich!?

Wouldn’t you like to be,

Wouldn’t you like to be,

Wouldn’t you like to be-eeeeeeee,

Beeeeeeeee,

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Rich!?

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1975, Moose School Music (BMI)

  

 

 

 

 

DON’T SIT BACK

 

Sweets:             Don’t sit back when things look black

                           Try to find the light

DB:                     Help your friends out now and then

                            And everything will work out right!

Cyrus:                 Don’t sit back if you are old

                            Plan a new attack!

Abigail:              The sun is old and it works fine

                            Get out and shine!  And don’t sit back!

 

Ensemble:         Don’t sit back!  Don’t sit back!

                            Don’t sit back!  Don’t sit back!

 

Madam Fox       Don’t sit back if you are rich

                            Be more gen’rous with your money

Wasp:                 You’ll be lonely if you’re stingy

Nasty:                 Folks like that don’t have much fun!

Sweets:               Don’t get high and waste your life

                            Your brain gets choked with all that smoke

Algy:                   I know lots of dopes who died

                            And when you “croak” it ain’t no joke!

 

Chorus

 

Hot Top:            Don’t sit back when life gets nutty

                            Get out there and crow!

Bunny:               Do your best to help somebody

                            Who’s feelin’ down, who’s feelin’ low!

Elmer:                 Don’t give up when you’re afraid

                            Don’t sit back and “stall”!  Get it?

Parson Pig:        Well folks like that don’t make mistakes!

Queen Bee:       They don’t make anything at all!

 

Chorus

 

Sweets:               So don’t sit back depressed and helpless

                            Blinded by the wrongs you see

                            Make some changes and you’ll find

                            That you’ve got lots of energy!

 

Chorus

 

 

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1975, Moose School Music (BMI)