Little Boxes Chords

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Little Boxes by Pete Seeger is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D7 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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        G                             C             G  
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky 
        G            D7               G             D 
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same 
            G                                C              G  
There's a green one, and a pink one, and a blue one, and a yellow one 
            G                D7                   G         D7       G  
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same 

          G                        C               G  
And the people in the houses, all went to the uni-versity 
            G              D7               G                D 
Where they all were put in boxes, and they came out all the same 
             G                                  C          G  
And there's doctors, and there's lawyers, and business ex-ecutives 
            G                D7                   G         D7       G  
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same 

          G                                 C              G  
And they all play on the golf course, and drink their mar-tinis dry 
         G                D7                G                D 
And they all have pretty children, and the children go to school 
          G                              C              G  
And the children go to summer camp, and then to the uni-versity 
            G              D7              G       D7       G  
Where they all are put in boxes, and they come out all the same 

         G                          C                 G  
And the boys go into business, and marry and raise a family 
    G             D7                    G                 D 
In boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same 
            G                                C              G  
There's a green one, and a pink one, and a blue one, and a yellow one 
            G                D7                   G         D7       G  
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante