Mudcat's Y2K For What It's Worth by Dave (the ancient mariner)


Dave's Comments: Ladies and Gentlemen, for your edification and delight. A short song written on the spur of the Y2K moment. I present . . . (with suitable and profuse apologies to Buffalo Springfield):


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's Bill Gates with a sign over there
Telling me I got to prepare

I think it's time we stop,
Children what's that sound
Y2K is coming around

There's credit lines being withdrawn
MacIntosh is right if Microsoft is wrong
Young people going online
Getting so much Internet before it's time

I think it's time we stop,
Hey what's that sound
Microsoft maybe going down

What a field-day without heat
Millions shivering in the street
Carrying MacIntosh and Microsoft signs
Saying I'll gladly pay for more Millennium time

It's time we stop,
Hey what's that sound
The Internet may be going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your threads it will creep
It starts when you're always online
You come offline, Y2K comes and takes it away

We better stop,
Hey what's that sound
Microsoft may be going down
Stop hey what's that sound
Everybody Internet is going down
Stop now, what's that sound
Traffic lights will be falling down
Stop children what's that sound
Bugger all happened, I'm going downtown