The full 1961 studio recording of Malvina Reynold's classic: "Little Boxes". Released on Omni Records.
Song Notes:
Malvina and her husband were on their way from where they lived in Berkeley, ...
The full 1961 studio recording of Malvina Reynold's classic: "Little Boxes". Released on Omni Records.
Song Notes:
Malvina and her husband were on their way from where they lived in Berkeley, through San Francisco and down the peninsula to La Honda where she was to sing at a meeting of the Friends Committee on Legislation (not the PTA, as Pete Seeger says in the documentary about Malvina, Love It Like a Fool). As she drove through Daly City, she said Bud, take the wheel. I feel a song coming on.
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1 Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. 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.
And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry, And they all have pretty children And the children go to school, And the children go to summer camp And then to the university, Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. 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.
Words and music by: Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1990.
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This song is the perfect critique of human existence in general. Humans try to put everything into boxes; God, groups of people, individual people, art, etc, etc. It's too bad more people don't realize that our artificial boxes are meaningless and nothing really ever fits into them. I think that is why there are so many problems in this world. Attempting to fit chaos into a neat little box is impossible no matter how hard we try.
@luda1421... obviously they are houses at the beginning of the song, but it changes throughout. It's a metaphor. The people go to university and get put in boxes. They come out all the same. It means society puts people in boxes. People become cookie cutter versions of each other, all the same. We try to put everything in boxes. It has a deeper meaning than just the houses.
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Nice Slide show