Showing posts with label song. Show all posts
Showing posts with label song. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2015

Downton


If you like Brits, including upper class twits
Then you can always watch Downton.
Who'll Mary marry? And will Tom go or tarry?
Just be sure to watch Downton.
So Gillingham and Charles both want to be in Mary's love life.
They both seem sweet, but soon she'll meet that lawyer from "The Good Wife."
What can you do?
We know that she likes lawyers,
But really we count for nothing, we're helpless voyeurs
Around Downton.
It's what we all adore. Downton.
Like Daisy and Patmore. Downton.
Or Robert and Cora.

Late in the season everybody's got reasons
They might stay or leave Downton.
Julian Fellowes writes both farewells and hellos
In the plots he weaves. Downton.
Like one bloke who supposedly survived from the "Titanic."
Or Edith's beau whom now we know was offed by thugs Germanic.
Strange ways to go.
The lives are much shorter there.
Between the wars and disasters, there's death in the air.
Beware Downton.
All turns to crisis fast. Downton.
Even poor Isis passed. Downton.
Granny will have the last laugh.

(instrumental)
So Edith took her daughter from the family of that herder.
And one Bates or another surely will stand trial for murder.
What do you know?
There's much that's behind closed doors.
That's where the action is brewing on all of the floors.
Let's watch Downton.
Thomas may be alright. Downton.
Carson and Hughes are tight. Downton.
That's where your Sunday night goes.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013

Work Songs

I was recently reminded of all the great work songs people used to sing ... songs about building canals and railroads, or about picking bales of cotton. All those fun activities.

I'd hate for that to become a lost art, so I'm trying to build enthusiasm for songs about today's work. Some ideas are:

Hi, ho! The server's down.
I can't seem to access my own Web files.
Hi, ho! The server's down.
Web pages or even CSS styles.

Or perhaps a more familiar tune would lend itself to updating:

I've been waiting for a download
All the live-long day.
I've been waiting for a download
But the server's gone away.
Can't you see the cursor spinning.
It's not coming back.
I don't think our host is winning
This DOS attack.
Server, don't be slow.
Server, don't be slow.
Server, don't be slow this mo-ho-horn.
Server, don't be slow.
Server, don't be slow,
So that I can download porn.

This is only the beginning of a new popular art. The possibilities are limitless.