(3:00) - dialogue-song-dialogue - Our trip begins with a vigorous march! - We meet and find out this Dads & sons "camp out" has one girl attending!  Here we go!

Camping With Dads

Follow The Leader

01 Follow The Leader

(4:08) - tack-piano, spoons, call & response fun!   So by golly, might as well be jolly!  Was the hike & camp out just a dream?

Gotta Be Somewhere

30 Gotta Be Somewhere

(:44) - dialogue
Ricky: I'm tired.  Can we go to sleep now?
P: Okay, bedtime, let's get in our tents and climb into our soggy bedrolls!
Quin: Can we have one more song before we go to sleep?
P: Well, ... let's put out the fire, wind's coming up.
Chad: We better make sure we've got our "rain fly tarps" tied down tonight.
Gerald: Yeah , ... I can feel a storm headed this way.  Got steel pins in my elbow, can always tell when that's coming!
Andre: I like being with everyone, but, ... I kinda wish I was somewhere else right now.
P: (laughing). But you’re not!  You’re right here with us!
Bailey: If you always wish you're somewhere else, you never enjoy where you are!
Norm: You're such a philosopher Bailey!
P: Okay, ... one last song!  Who's got the box?
Ricky: Here Peter.
P: Thank you Ricky, ... will please push the button for us?
Ricky: Sure.
(*BOING!!)

Gifts+

29 Gifts+

(2:37) - guitar, Quinn solos with the boys & Peter.  Gifts wrapped in expectations, come with strings attached and are about control.

Some Gifts

28 Some Gifts

(1:34) - dialogue
Gerald: (laughing) I heard singing!  Knew it was you.
All: Geraaaald!!  Hi Gerald!  
P: You made it!  Got your bed-roll?
Gerald: Yep.  Hey Chad!  Hi Norman. Good t'see you guys, ... I know you kids!
Kids: Hi Gerald.  Hi G.  Hello!  Good morning!  Hey.
Stu: I'm Stuart, and this is my son Ricky.
Gerald: Nice t'meet ya.  So, I'm ready, ... we gonna make it to the campsite by lunch time?
P: Yep.  Let's circle up first!
Leon: Why do we have to get into a circle?
Quin: Why do you have to ask so many questions?
Leon: Why did you come on this trip?
Quin: Why does it bother you?
Chad: Why can't you two stop?
Quin: Are we playing "Questions" now Dad?
Norm: Are you acting like children again?
Bailey: We are children!
Quin: STATEMENT!  You lost!
P: Okay!  Now look, ... we're in our "circle of caring".  I wrote a special song for us, ... it's called DADS 'N BOYS, and, ... here are some word sheets, ... please pass 'em around, ... 
P: Now Dads, ... we're gonna care about each other on this camp out, ... right?!
Dads: RIGHT!
P: Right Boys?
Boys: RIGHT!
Quin: What about girls?
Peter: Annnd, .... we agree to care about everyone, ... including girls and women in our lives.  Right?
All: RIGHT!
Peter: OK, one of the great things about being in a circle, is that we can always take a step backwards, and make it wider, so we can always make room for more people to join us!   Right?
All: RIGHT!
Peter: Stuart, ... would you play your guitar for this one?
Stu: Sure.
P: And you all have your word sheets?
All: Yep.  Yes.  I do.  Uh-huh. I do right here!
Ricky: I don't know how to read.
P: So when I point to you, Ricky, ... you sing "Dads and Boys love new toys!"  Okay!
Ricky: Dads and Boys love new toys!
P: Perfect!
Bailey: 'Sonical Digital Musical Box!'  Can I push the button!?
P: No digital box this time, Bailey, ... Stuart's playing a real guitar!

Gorilla+

11 Gorilla+

(3:22) - loose foot-tappin' jugband rock!  He can wash the car, and he plays guitar, why not?!  Amazing how people just repeat what you say, ... when they can't believe what you said!

I Brought A Gorilla Home

10 I Brought A Gorilla Home

(:41) - dialogue
Bailey: Sometimes parents listen, but usually, they're too busy.
Leon: Yeah, ... (to Chad), ... you never believe us!
Chad: What are you talking about!?  I believe you when you tell me things.
Leon: Sometimes you just repeat what I say, ... like you don't understand.
Chad: Like when?
Leon: Remember? ... I said, "I want to buy a 'leopard gecko', and you said, (being Chad) "You want to buy, a 'leopard gecko'?"  You just repeat what I say!
Chad: "I just repeat what you say?"
Leon: See!!?
P: Okay, ... I can't believe you guys just said that!  Now I HAVE to play my new song for you!  So kids, ... every time I say, "I brought a gorilla home," you pretend YOU are MY parents, ... and you repeat it back to me ... just like parents do!  Ready?
Kids: Ready!
P: Push the button Quinn! 
(*BOING!!)

Listen+

09 Listenin+

(1:53) - Peter solos w. banjo. "I won’t interrupt or get in your way".  Some Dads give us a "good talkin' to", when we just needed to be heard.

08 You Need A Good Listenin' To

(1:19) - song & dialogue - acapella - Make me want to gag-Dad jokes!  Part of a Dad's job description is to embarrass the kids by telling really awful jokes.

Bad Dad Jokes

07 Bad Dad Jokes

(:43) - dialogue
P: We followed the trail all the way up to where the old dam used to be, ... and we saw where the engineers had restored the creek to it's natural condition.  At that point, ... we took another path.  The sign had an arrow that said "Up To High Ground Camp".  And we walked and talked and sang, ... and after another 1/2 hour, .. we heard, ...
Leon: Are we there yet?
Andre: My pack it too heavy!
Bailey: Can we rest?
P: We're almost to the big oak. We can rest there.
Ricky: Where's the big oak?
P: Just past those railroad tracks up ahead
Andre: Hope we see a train!
Bailey: We're out in the country, ... trains don't come here much.
P: One came by, ... just a minute ago!
Leon: How do you know?
P: I can see it's tracks!
All: (groan!)
P: What?  What!?

Pologist+

06 Pologist+

(2:48) -guitar, tuba, wooden spoons - Let's study you and me, and other people that we see!  A skill for whenever you're bored, ... just observe the strange rituals of the people around you!

Anthropologist

05 Anthropologist

(2:20) - song & dialogue with lots of musical forms - This magical box knows what to play, whatever we sing!

Sonical Digital Musical Box

04 Sonical Digital Musical Box

(:30) - dialogue 
P: Okay kids, ... let's keep movin'!
Chad: What's that little black box you're carrying Peter?  A computer?
P: Kinda, ... it's a "Sonical Digital Musical Box".  Thought it might come in handy.
Bailey: A sonic, musical, boxical?
P: It's a Sonical Digital Musical Box.  I push the button, ... and it plays wonderful music with any song we sing.
Quin: A Soni-cal, Digi-tal, Music-al Box?
P: It's a Sonical Digital Musical Box!  Here, 
Leon: I wanna push the button!
Quin: Don't shove me!
P: Can't push the button until you can sing this song, ... so I'll push the button!   (*BOING!!)

Home+

03 Home+

(1:49) - easy-going uke & marimba sing-along.   So the Steelhead can get back home, and the Rain runs to the sea, as the gang hikes by a deconstructed county dam.

Peter Alsop

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