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Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds cover) Lyrics
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes, little boxes
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 go to the university
And they all get put in boxes
Little boxes, all the same
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes, little boxes
Little boxes, all the same
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
All go to the university
And they all get put in boxes
Little boxes, all the same
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
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Weeds. Theme. Song.
i wish i knew what ticky-tack was!
You can find it at office max or some place like that...walmart too i think...it's used tohold up posters insteard of tape....it's usualy blue but there are different colors....and basically its totally awesome stuff thats like playdoh for adults!! Even though back in kindergarten all the kids would always peel it off the walls, and from behind the posters and sometimes right off the teachers desk! ;)
You can find it at office max or some place like that...walmart too i think...it's used tohold up posters insteard of tape....it's usualy blue but there are different colors....and basically its totally awesome stuff thats like playdoh for adults!! Even though back in kindergarten all the kids would always peel it off the walls, and from behind the posters and sometimes right off the teachers desk! ;)
weird. My mum used to sing this song about little boxes made of ticky-tack, and the different colours they were, but I was about 9 then, and now I am 18. Also, it was something she remembered from childhood. So maybe there's an old nursery rhyme there somewhere..?
Found out its an old Pete Seeger song. That version has more verses. I think it's about conformity? Go to school, go to uni, get a respectable job, have kids, who go to school, who go to uni..and the cycle goes on.
Nope. Malvina Reynolds wrote it. Everyone else covered it.
Nope. Malvina Reynolds wrote it. Everyone else covered it.
The third line is supposed to be "Little Boxes on the hillside" Instead of "go to the university" it should be "WENT to the university"
^^ I love this sooong
This song always makes me think of the town I live in. Gotta love the suburbs.
lolz I love the show WEEDS though I don't get to watch it often, this song is at it's best with the version by Regina
This is actually a poem by Malvina Reynolds circa 1963. It's the sweetest hippie words ever put to page since my Grade 9 english teacher read it to my class. Ticky-tacky refers to the moldability of people.
From www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster Online) "ticky-tacky:
sleazy or shoddy material used especially in the construction of look-alike tract houses; also : something built of ticky-tacky" Also: "1 : of an uninspired or monotonous sameness 2 : tacky 3 : built of ticky-tacky "
It was a song written originally by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, best known as someone above noted from the Pete Seeger version.
Ticky tacky is the blue wall stick ball o nthe kindergarten teachers desk that everyone steals!