[or-roots] Pretty boxes

[Leslie Chapman]

Cecil;

It is actually Little Boxes on the Hillside;

Little Boxes
By
Malvina Reynolds

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.

This isn't the original version, the only reference I could find to the Burl
Ives version is in a Q &  A for BART, but down to about the word University
this is the same lyrics, from here on it get increasingly leftist oriented
so considering all the flack we've had I just post here the "historic"
version.

This is genealogy because for me it is evocative of my mother's cousin
Lester Wade who was so fond of that tune, even though he himself was the
epitome of Mother, Flag and apple Pie when it came to politics. I think he
just liked it because it was such a good tune and hang the message.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: Cecil Houk
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:44 AM


Verdena:

Do you mean "Pretty boxes, made of ticky tacky. Pretty boxes all in a row."?

That describes most of America today.

I remember when there were orange trees by the gazillion in Orange County;
along I-5.  Now it's "pretty boxes, pretty boxes all in a row"... As far as
the eye can see.

Just tonight, my dear wife (of 31 years), Rachel, said that she would like
to live on the Morgan homestead at Elsie, OR.  It's too bad we didn't know
that the place was for sale before it was sold.

I spent a couple of weeks there in 1994 helping my aunt (Lovena Houk
Morgan), prepare to move to Tacoma.  Gee!  She had the perfect "mosquito
magnets".  I think you call them "bats".

There was a mercury vapor steet lamp in her drive way that attracted the
bugs, and I watched the bats fly through the swarm and saw it deminish, ever
so slowly, night after night.  It didn't cost a cent.  :-)

And there isn't a "pretty box" within miles of that  location.

Cecil
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