The Sysop's Song

[Urbane Guerrilla]

A little something I found on the way to trying to find a MIDI of The Policeman's Song to listen to:

The Sysop's Song
(tune: "The Policeman's Song" from "The Pirates of Penzance"
by Gilbert and Sullivan)
Words by Beth Wheeler
1996

When the hacker isn't tearing up the system
(Up the system)
Or hatching his felonious little plots
(Little plots)
It's only 'cause he knows the sysops list 'em
(Sysops list 'em)
And put them in his aideline's empty slots
(empty slots)



Their feelings they with difficulty smother
('Culty smother)
When vocabulary duty's to be done
(To be done)
Ah, take one consideration with another
(With another)
A sysop's job is not a happy one...


When vocabulary duty's to be done
(To be done)
A sysop's job is not a happy one
(Happy one)


When the busy agitator's agitating
(Agitating)
For the overthrow of sysops and their friends
(And their friends)
The sysops must just smile and take the rating
(Take the rating)
Or offer for mistakes to make amends
(Make amends)


When the user's finished jumping on his brother
(On his brother)
Attacking the administration's fun
('Stration's fun)
Ah, take one consideration with another
(With another)
A sysop's job is not a happy one...


When vocabulary duty's to be done
(To be done)
A sysop's job is not a happy one
(Happy one)