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Thread #31006   Message #3082005
Posted By: Charley Noble
25-Jan-11 - 07:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Housing Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Housing Songs
Jim-

True, no one here has this time around. "Little Boxes" is a song about "quality of neighborhood" with several different interpretations. Any it certainly was suggested and considered in the early years of this research.

Two other songs by Malvina Reynolds did make the cut for the current draft:

"The Faucets are Dripping" (maintenance problems in Old New York City), 1959

"No House" (Homelessness), 1950

I'd be happy to post the full lyrics to either of these songs if there is interest.

I'm actually having a lot of fun going through my box of notes related to this project. It's a minor miracle that I actually found the box and that it hadn't become a nest for mice sometime in the last 30 years.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble