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GUEST,Cricketer Chris Help: Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds) ticky-tacky? (138* d) RE: Help: Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds) ticky-tacky? 08 Aug 11


Here's the cricketing version of Pete Seeger's little ditty:

"Little boxes in the sports shop
Little boxes are for cricketers
Little boxes made of plastic
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a white one and a pink one
And one made of aluminium
For the tender bits of cricketers
And it still hurts quite a lot.

"And the batsmen still get injured
And get impotent and quite undignified
'Cos a short ball in the boxes
Hurts the ballses quite a lot;
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
With a sprinkling of aluminium
And it still hurts quite a lot."

Accredited to English west country singer Fred Wedlock.
Source: Allen, David Rayvern; A Song For Cricket,published by Pelham Books, London, c1981.


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