Malvina Reynolds, who lived in Berkely California, where the hillsides are bulldozed, terraced, and boxed, wrote a song before breakfast almost every day. Most of them did not survive but this one did. Like most people, I learned it from Pete Seeger.
Words and music by Malvina Reynolds, copyright 1963 by Schroder Music Co.
Other songs by Malvina Reynolds in this section are:
    "The Bankers and the Diplomats"
    "Billy Boy (parody)"
    "I Want to Go to Andorra"
    "It Isn't Nice"
    "What Have They Done to the Rain".