Programmer's Waltz
Words by David Weingart © 1990
TTTO Witnesses' Waltz by Leslie Fish

CHORUS: 
     Twelve thousand, half million, million or more 
     Pages of printout that cover the floor 
     Work overtime 'til we barely can stand 
     To write all the software the users demand 

Oh come along coders and hackers and geeks 
Stick to the specs that you've hated for weeks 
Type in your source code and wait for a while 
And we'll chug down the Jolt as the system compiles 

CHORUS 

It's the bugs in your code that you don't want to see 
As they quickly scroll up off your desk CRT 
One wrong semi-colon, one line out of place 
And the whole bloody program ends up lost in space 

CHORUS 

Supervisors ignore us, and customers too 
But if they don't notice, the schedulers do 
Hear them scream on the phone as we tell them to wait 
'Cause the program they need is "a week or two" late 

CHORUS 

So come, let's go rewrite our programs today 
While the world's biggest disk failure clears them away 
We'll drink lots of coffee, on Fritos we'll munch 
From eleven 'til two we will all go to lunch