Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (Weeds Theme Song) Full Version with Lyrics
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Mostly cited as a joke or passing reference when conversation touches on conformity or identical houses.
What it is
The full Malvina Reynolds recording of the folk song 'Little Boxes', a satire of identical suburban tract housing, later popularized as the Weeds theme. The upload includes the lyrics.
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Cites Animats · 2023-10 · on “Why Are There So Many Colourful Houses in Bristol?”
Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a pink one and a green 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 "Little Boxes", 1961 [1] It refers to Daly City, incidentally. Multicolored tract houses were a 1950s California thing. [1] [this video]