Key: E
Introduction:
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Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
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Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same.
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There's a green one, and a pink one,
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And a blue one, and a yellow one,
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And they're all made out of ticky-tacky,
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And they all look just the same.
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And the people in the houses all went to the university,
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Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same.
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And there's doctors, and there's lawyers,
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And there's business executives,
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And they're all made out of ticky-tacky,
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And they all look just the same.
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And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry,
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And they all have pretty children and the children go to school,
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And the children go to summer camp,
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And then to the university,
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Where they all are put in boxes,
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And they come out all the same.
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And the boys go into business,
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And they marry and raise a family,
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In boxes made of ticky-tacky,
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And they all look just the same.