# Question about a fictional song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [August 18, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180 "2025-08-18T01:32:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180/1 "2025-08-18T01:32:20Z")

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Has anyone ever put “Buck’s Song”, from Heinlein’s _Time Enough For Love_, to music?

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180/2 "2025-08-18T23:39:53Z")

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You mean Dora’s song? “There’s a pawnshop ‘round the corner…”? It has music; Heinlein didn’t make it up.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180/3 "2025-08-19T00:32:22Z")

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I think it was Buck’s Song first.

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180/4 "2025-08-19T02:30:40Z")

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For some reason, I hear it to the tune of “Little Boxes” but that’s just me

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**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180/5 "2025-08-19T02:40:45Z")

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It’s been conjectured that “Little Boxes” is a parody of “Pawn Shop”:

> **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/a9tv3r/blowing_the_lid_off_little_boxes/)**

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-fictional-song/1022180/6 "2025-08-19T10:54:03Z")

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Interesting…. Thanks