Little Boxes is a song written and composed by American folk/blues singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for folk singer-social activist Pete Seeger in 1963, when he released his cover version.
The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and conformist middle-class attitudes.
On Aug. 8, FBI agents searched former U.S. president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. They seized 11 sets of documents marked as classified—one set at the highest classification level, "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" (TS/SCI), four sets at the "top secret" level, three sets at the "secret" level and three sets at the "confidential" level.
What follows is a rewrite of Little Boxes for these times.
Trumpy Boxes
Trumpy boxes in the basement
Trumpy boxes full of documents
Trumpy boxes are classified
Trumpy boxes not the same
There's confidential and secret
Top secret, TS/SCI
That were taken from the White House
And they all don't look the same
The subpoena he did receive
For the documents not turned over
The plastic and cardboard boxes
That the FBI reclaimed
And there's Trumpers and his lawyers
And the far-right wacky media
And they all spew propaganda
And they all sound just the same
The Loser plays on his golf course
And guzzles down his Diet Coke
And then adds some extra ketchup
To cheeseburgers on his plate
And he can only play checkers
While Merrick Garland plays 3-D chess
Donald's being out-maneuvered
Doesn't grasp the bigger game
At the New York deposition
He had taken the Fifth Amendment
Over four hundred forty times
And each time, it was the same
Who's the mole on the inside?
Is it Jared or Ivanka?
Or maybe wife Melania?
Inner circle is in play
Files confidential and secret
Top secret, TS/SCI
Now retrieved from Mar-a-Lago
He took them, what was his aim?
David Buckna