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Y2K Blues

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Woke up dis morning
my achin' head was spinnin' roun',
Got so many legacy programs
I jus' know we gonna drown

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

Somewheres in middle fifties,
best as I can recall,
We started coding thousands of
lines of Assembler and Cobol

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

We kept on a codin'
braggin' about how many KLOC's,
We punches up those cards
and kept feeding that Big Blue box

I gotta real bad feelin' ain't nothin' can help us now

Generatin' blue bar paper
in ceiling high mounds,
We drank our coffee in gallons
and ate donuts by the pound

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

Twas the days of vacuum tubes
and hard wired boards,
We made anyone a programmer
and hired 'em in hordes

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

Thought we were smart,
tried to save those two litle bytes,
And now it's back to haunt us
causin' all these sleepless nights

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

And now this devils' upon us
meaner than a rabid junk yard dog,
Leaving stressed out system managers
confused and in a fog

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

An' if that weren't all
and even bad 'nough,
We got thousands of contractors
tellin' us they really know their stuff

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

We're spending cash dollars
by the buckets and truckload,
But we even ain't got one
system out of user test mode

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

Can't see no easy solution
the flames are getting higher
Don't know about all of you
but this po' man's ready to retire.

I gotta real bad feelin'
ain't nothin' can help us now

Lord Have Mercy!