little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,

Little boxes, little boxes,

Little boxes, all the same.

There's a green one and a pink 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.

[While I was walking through the neighborhoods of Tromsø recently I realized that "Little Boxes" is an ode to the city. Most houses in this place are like boxes. They are on the hillside. And they are multi-colored.]

And the people in the houses

All go to the university,

And they all get put in boxes,

Little boxes, all the same.

And there's doctors and there's lawyers,

And business executives,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same. -Malvina Reynolds