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Thread #123476   Message #2718735
Posted By: Emma B
08-Sep-09 - 07:03 AM
Thread Name: Do you like 'Little Boxes'?
Subject: RE: Do you like 'Little Boxes'?
Well you see MtheGM I actually find the parody in the DT which equally pokes fun at an alternative life style amusing whch, in its own way, is just as 'conventional' as playing golf and drinking dry martinis.

Don't you think 'denounce' and 'throughly disgusting' is a tad OTT - the song pokes fun at conventional life styles which fit people into little boxes from birth onwards and ensures 'they all grow up the same'!

LITTLE BOXES RE-VISITED
(Dick McCormack)

Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes filled with macrame
Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes all the same

And the women all wear over-alls
And grow organic vegetables
And their jewelry comes from Pakistan
And it all looks just the same

And the men are into leathercraft
Or else they're into pottery
And they're getting their heads together
And their head are all the same

Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes full of Escher prints
Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes all the same

And the children go to daycare
Where the girls all are aggressive
And the little boys are nice and passive
So they all grow up the same

And they all read Kurt Vonnegut
And Carlos Castanada
And they all ski in Colorado
And it all comes around the same

Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes full of Kliban cats
Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes all the same

Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes full of spider plants
Little Boxes on the hillside
Little Boxes all the same

@parody
Copyright Dick McCormack

Anyways, if it's good enough for Pete Seeger ....