Discover the story of the song > Little Boxes – Pete Seeger

The protagonist is singing about the houses in a neighborhood that all look the same, made of similar materials and painted in similar colors. He observes that everyone who lives in these houses seems to follow the same path in life - they attend university, work as doctors, lawyers or business executives, play golf, have children and send them to school and summer camp. The protagonist laments that everyone is put in these little boxes, following the same routine, with little variation in their lives.