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You've tried rolling them on the floor, squishing them under your feet and sticking them under your seat - but it's hard not to get the blues from those boring old canned peas facing you on your plate. The question is, How can you win over a parent, when conflict resolution just isnt working? "Oh, Mama, can't we please negotiate?"

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1. It's Wednesday night at our house
I'm in the kitchen all alone.
Yeah, it's Wednesday night at our house
And I'm wishing I weren't home.
I stare at my food on the table
And all I do is moan and groan.

2. I hear my friends out the window.
They're laughing loud and having fun.
Yeah, I hear my friends out the window.
They're playing hard in the evening sun.
I hear "allee allee in free!",
But I can't come 'cause I'm not done.

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Canned peas, canned peas,
Mama don't make me eat them please!
I'll get down and beg on my knees,
'cause they taste like stinkin' ol socks to me.

3. I've tried everything I know
to get them gone from my plate.
I've tried everything I know
to avoid this Wednesday fate.
But Mama don't miss a trick;
She makes me eat those peas I hate.

Break:
I've tried rollin' them on the floor;
throwin' them out the door
stickin' them under my seat
squishin' them under my feet!
Oh, Mama, can't we please negotiate?
I'd do anything to avoid this Wednesday fate.
But Mama don't give a lick.
She makes me eat those peas I hate.

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4. Gotta find a way to end this;
gonna stop my misery.
Gonna find a way to end this;
but it's still a mystery.
Gotta talk some sense into Mama.
And make those peas history!

5. I'll get my friends together,
and with my mama we will meet.
Yeah, I'll get my friends together.
So I'm not alone to take the heat.
And if that don't work to change it.
Next week we'll picket in the street!

Chorus

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from Come Join the Circle: Lessonsongs For Peacemaking, released December 10, 2001
©1999 Paulette Meier

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Paulette Meier Cincinnati, Ohio

Paulette's singing and songwriting skills have served the causes of peace, justice, and the earth for the past 30 years. Her award winning children's CD, Come Join the Circle, inspires children in the ways of peace in families and classrooms across the country. More recently, she has turned to promoting inner peace through putting Quaker Wisdom to chant. ... more

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