And a green one
And a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same

Binro, I thought the same thing, but I think I've only met a handful of people who have ever even heard that song.

It's one of many songs my mom sings when doing housework or getting a child to go to sleep. She's not able to do a lot of housework, anymore, but she sang that song a few nights ago to get my younger nephew to lie down.

Mom and dad are somewhat hippies, which is kind of weird since dad was in the marines and served in Vietnam. Actually, I guess that's why he became a somewhat hippy.

Actually, that song is pretty famous now since it's the theme song from the vastly overrated Showtime series Weeds.

Huh. Never watched that show. I actually heard it from an old 45 record my folks had.

I've heard of that, but I've never watched it. It looked like they stole the plot of "Saving Grace" and mixed it with a primetime soap opera.

I thought that song was a pretty big hit (for folk).

This discussion led me to do some digging.

I'm pretty sure my mom heard the Peter Seeger version. He was one of several folk artist she listened to and I remember seeing a couple of his albums in my parents' collection. He made "Little Boxes" popular, but it was originally written and performed by Malvina Reynolds, who I've never heard of before. (I'll have to look her up)

Also, Tom Lehrer called it "the most sanctimonious song ever written." Of course, he's a hypocritical bourgeois pig, so he would say something like that.

I love that song, for me it's one of those "it's-old-but-new-again-and-no-one-knows-to-do-their-home-work-so- they-have-no-idea-it's-older-then-the-flavour-of-the-year-show."
The owner of my company is about 65 or so, comes in singing this (he's usually singing something from the 20's/30's) and a co-worker at the time goes, "OH, you watch weeds?"

While I'm here, any suggestions for folk music?

Hello! Welcome to the Internet!

It became a lot more than this. It became some disturbing as shit pillowcases, too!

I for one can't wait for my generation to be culturally irrelevant instead of sucked up to through nostalgia. we're a bunch of assholes getting outraged when someone reboots a series of films about mutated ninja turtles.

ARG, agreed.