mej@ptsfa.UUCP (Mary Johnson) (11/08/84)
(Resubmitted to the net because several sites got only the first 2
lines of the initial submission.)
This song was written by Nigel Russell as a parody of a Black field
holler (a song used to lead and set the rhythm for a working group).
White Collar Holler
(c) Nigel Russell (CAPAC)
Well, I rise up every morning at a quarter to eight
Some woman who's my wife tells me not to be late
I kiss the kids goodbye, I can't remember their names
And week after week it's always the same
And it's Ho boys, can't you code it (Yeh!)
And program it right
Nothing ever happens in this life of mine
I'm hauling out the data on the Xerox line
Then it's code in the data, give the keyboard a punch
Then cross-correlate and break for some lunch
Correlate, tabulate, process and screen
Program, printout, regress to the mean
Chorus
Then it's home again, eat again, watch some TV
Make love to my woman at ten fifty-three
I dream the same dream when I'm sleeping at night
I'm soaring over hills like an eagle in flight
Chorus
Someday I'm gonna give up all the buttons and things
I'll punch that time clock til it can't ring
Burn up my necktie and set myself free
'Cause no-one's gonna fold, bend, or mutilate me
Chorus
Stan Rogers sings this song on his album "Between the Breaks.........
Live!". The album (on the Fogarty's Cove label) is available from
Cole Harbour Music, 14 Hess Street South, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
L8P 3M9.
Net etiquette requires that I post a warning about one of the songs
on this record - Harris and the Mare. Stan Rogers wrote fine songs
of men's feelings about their work and experiences, but his view
of women was traditional and conservative. The song Harris and
the Mare is an attempt to present a justification for killing;
it will offend women, and those men who reject the idea that
masculinity is defined by violence.
Mary Johnson
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