Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
This song, released in 1963, is about suburban sprawl, specifically Daly City of the West Bay Area 650.
Little Boxes - Wikipedia
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The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia, and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It mocks suburban tract housing as "lit...
[Verse 1]
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes, little boxes
Little boxes all the same
[Verse 2]
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
[Verse 3]
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
And they all get put in boxes
Little boxes all the same
[Verse 4]
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same
[Verse 5]
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school
[Verse 6]
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same
[Verse 7]
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
And they all get put in boxes
Little boxes all the same
[Verse 8]
There's a green one, and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
Little Boxes was written by Malvina Reynolds.
Little Boxes was produced by John Hammond.