Tuesday, August 14, 2007

This is a song from the 60's that describes some of the houses and the things people do here in Utah as well as a lot of other places. I looked up on the hill near Draper and those houses there really reminded me of this song.

Little Boxes
by Malvina Reynolds, sung by Pete Seeger 1962
Little boxes on the hillside,Little boxes made of ticky tackyLittle 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 oneAnd they're all made out of ticky tackyAnd they all look just the same.
And the people in the housesAll went to the universityWhere they were put in boxesAnd they came out all the sameAnd there's doctors and lawyersAnd business executivesAnd they're all made out of ticky tackyAnd they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf courseAnd drink their martinis dryAnd they all have pretty children And the children go to school,And the children go to summer campAnd then to the universityWhere they are put in boxes And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into businessAnd marry and raise a familyIn boxes made of ticky tackyAnd they all look just the same,There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow oneAnd they're all made out of ticky tackyAnd they all look just the same
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