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Thread #6883   Message #40729
Posted By: Jack (Who is called Jack)
07-Oct-98 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: Parodies-Non-Intellectual
Subject: Lyr Add: LIFETIME OF BOREDOM (?)
Here's a parody of a Merle Travis tune, Dark as a Dungeon. Modified for secretaries instead of coal miners.

Come all you young women so fair and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the clerical line.
It will darken your soul
It will soften your mind
It's a lifetime of boredom in the clerical line.

Where the pressure is double, the raises are few.
And whenever there's trouble, the blame falls and you
. Where the flourescents hum and the laserjets whine.
It's a life time of boredom in the clerical line.

There is many a woman I've known in my day
Who lives just to file her whole life away.
In a mindnumbing hell full of sorrow and strife.
Where the fumes from the white-out can blind you for life.

Where the pressure is double, the raises are few.
And whenever there's trouble, the blame falls and you.
Where the flourescents hum and the laserjets whine.
Its a life time of boredom in the clerical line.

You will stand all the stress just as long as you're able
But eventually you will become unstable.
And get asked to get coffee one too many times
And you'll strangle you boss with the packaging twine.

Where the pressure is double, the raises are few.
And whenever there's trouble, the blame falls and you.
Where the flourescents hum and the laserjets whine.
It's a life time of boredom in the clerical line.