Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!bbncca!keesan From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Lyrics wanted--P. Seeger (Actually, M. Reynolds) Message-ID: <1169@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 17:34:17 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1169 Posted: Tue Nov 27 17:34:17 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 06:09:20 EST References: <2165@stolaf.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 13 ------------------------------ "Little Boxes" is not by Pete Seeger. It was written by Malvina Reynolds, one of this century's finest songwriters. Malvina started writing songs when she was about fifty years old, and continued until her death a few years ago. It was reputed that she wrote a song a day, and she was known on a least one occasion to write a song before breakfast. She was known mostly within the folk music community, but a few of her songs received wider national recognition, including the above-mentioned "Little Boxes", "What Have They Dont -- Morris M. Keesan {decvax,linus,ihnp4,wivax,wjh12,ima}!bbncca!keesan keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA