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Tue Feb 2 16:20:31 1982
The VMUNIX Blues
I wrote this ballad a couple of weeks ago, and gave a premiere
performance at USENIX with esquire!psl at the keyboard, and a chorus of
hackers in the background. We were dubbed "Andy and the Free Inodes."
The tune is the same as "Deep Elem Blues," recently covered by the
Grateful Dead. Mail additions to floyd!trb.
It has about 1k verses to go, but, by popular demand, here it is,
The VMUNIX Blues:
VMUNIX Blues 21-Jan-82 by Andy Tannenbaum
(c) 1982 by Andy Tannenbaum
Profits to go to the Smithsonian Hacker Folk Music Archive.
When you bring up VMUNIX,
Just to have a little fun,
You'd better have your Western License,
When the Board of Regents come.
Oh, sweet mama, hacker's got the VMUNIX Blues,
Oh, sweet mama, hacker's got the VMUNIX Blues.
Once I met a pinstripe,
Knew his doubly nested do,
He logged in to VMUNIX,
Now his FORTRAN days are through.
Oh, sweet mama, ...
When you debug a C program,
Don't know what the hell to do,
Segmentation violation,
It's a structure pointer screw.
Oh, sweet mama, ...
It comes time to clean up shit work,
You type r m foo space star,
By the time you realize it,
You won't know where those files are.
Oh, sweet mama, ...
When you run on an eleven,
With a quarter meg of core,
And some loser cranks an nroff,
There ain't no response no more.
Oh, sweet mama, ...
Ar as at,
Bc dc adb,
Df du dd,
It don't mean a thing to me.
Oh, sweet mama, ...
When you argue with a netnews flamer,
Be prepared to lose,
Because that burnt out flamer's got,
The VMUNIX Blues,
Oh, sweet mama, hacker's got the VMUNIX Blues,
Oh, sweet mama, hacker's got the VMUNIX Blues.
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