words and music by Malvina
Reynolds

Little boxes on
the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky
tacky,
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.

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/MALVINA/mr094.htm
A footnote at the bottom says, “The term “ticky tacky” is
now included in the Oxford English Dictionary, and credited to
Malvina.”

Watch Pete Seeger perform
“Little Boxes” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3rN59GlWw