Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes (Weeds Theme Song) Full Version with Lyrics – YouTube
While you have most certainly heard the Pete Seeger version, have you heard the original Malvina Reynolds version from 1961? She really has the quite the voice.
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While you have most certainly heard the Pete Seeger version, have you heard the original Malvina Reynolds version from 1961? She really has the quite the voice.
"And here's to the government of Richard Nixon
In the swamp of their bureaucracy
They're always bogging down
And criminals are posing
As advisors to the crown
And they hope that no one sees the sights
And no one hears the sounds
And the speeches of the president
Are the ravings of a clown"
"Oh here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Richard Nixon: find yourself another country to be part of"
I always thought this song was about mountain top removal for coal, but I guess it's about timbering. Still it's a classic song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhM7I9gD4U
This seems like a good evening for listening to Gordon Lightfoot.
"How about those years of lynchings And the shot in Evers' back? Did you say it wasn't proper, Did you stand upon the track? You were quiet just like mice, Now you say we aren't nice, And if that is Freedom's price, We don't mind."
I guess I didn’t discover Malvina Reynolds, as she used to be a lot on WRPI but I re-discovered her today and I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from her music. π»Like many of the folk musicians of the era, she’s pretends to be a very subversive grandmother. β’Not offensive or vulgar, just very subversive. And I like subversive people and subversive ideas.π΅
Honestly, Pete Seeger didn't sound or look much different some sixty years after he recorded this song in 1951.