In the early 1980s Peggy and composer Paul Horner wrote many songs in preparation for her autobiographical Broadway show Peg, which had only a brief run in late 1983 and featured sixteen of their new songs alongside her hits from past decades. A few songs from Peg have since been revived by other singers (“Angels on Your Pillow,” “He’ll Make Me Believe That He’s Mine,” “My Dear Acquaintance”). One Peg song that was published was “One Beating a Day,” which reveals Peggy’s occasionally subversive sense of humor. The song recounts the childhood physical abuse she endured at the hands of her stepmother, but it is set to a bubbly calypso beat to convey the song’s ultimate message: “She didn’t make me hate anybody. She only made me love everybody. The joke is on her.”