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Friday, October 24, 2008

Poor Paddy Works on the Software

Air: Poor Paddy Works on the Railway

[ANDANTE]
In nineteen hundred and eighty-one
The stripy braces I put on
I put my stripy braces on
To work upon the software, the software
I'm weary of the software
Poor Paddy works on the software

[ALLEGRO]
In nineteen hundred and eighty-two
From IBM to Fujitsu
I found myself a job to do
A-working on the software

I was wearing stripy braces
Setting traces, shifting places
Switching cases, I
Was working on the software

In nineteen hundred and eighty-three
I played my Leonard Cohen LP
I went to work for Her Majesty
On poll tax payment software

I was wearing stripy braces
Setting traces, shifting places
Switching cases, I
Was working on the software

[ANDANTE]
In nineteen hundred and eighty-four
I landed on the Shoreditch shore
Me eyes were red, me wrists were sore
From working on the software, the software
I'm burnt out from the software
Poor Paddy works on the software

[ALLEGRO]
In nineteen hundred and eighty-five
When Billy Gates was only five
When Lady Ada was still alive
I worked upon the software 

I was wearing stripy braces
Setting traces, shifting places
Switching cases, I
Was working on the software

Then came the old millennium 
All I did was sit on me bum
Raking dosh and playing dumb
For fiddling with the software

I was wearing stripy braces
Setting traces, shifting places
Switching cases, I
Was working on the software

[ANDANTE]
In the year of two thousand and one
Poor Paddy's millennium bug was gone
The sod had to give up his coke and rum
And work upon the software, the software
I'm sick to me death of the software
Poor Paddy works on the software

[ALLEGRO]
I was wearing stripy braces
Setting traces, shifting places
Switching cases, I
Was working on the software!

--
Stephen Moran

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice.