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POST Y2K BLUES

[To the tune of every blues song you've ever heard]

Well I was talking to my baby, bout them old post Y2K blues Yeah, talking to my baby, bout them old post Y2K blues You know I'm singing out loud to you people Lord you know, bout them old post Y2K blues

Well I spent alot of money, on them canned Y2K preps Yeah I spent alot of money on them old Y2K preps Now I'm singing to you Lord Glad I ain't had to eat any yet

Theres Spam in every closet Jugs of water everywhere Got a hundred pounds of Uncle Ben's Don't know when it's gonna end oh...

I'm down here singing Lord Singing bout them good old post Y2K blues Yes and they tell me don'tcha know it Lord That everythings burnin on a mighty short fuse

[harmonica cut] Bring it on home -

I seen that Dow is rising, but I don't know what it means They say they hit record numbers , but that don't mean a thing Guess I should be in that old market Lord But my baby says better keep that money green

The Dow it just keeps risin And Nasdaq done it too Now AOL done bought Time Warner Gonna change the way we see our news

Well - baby, baby, baby I gotta case of them old post Y2K blues Yeah I got me a bad case baby Of them old post Y2K blues I'm just gonna stay hunkered down right here baby

Down here waiting

Ba - ba- ba - ba

Down here waiting don't you know about it mama

Bum Bum Bum Bup Waitiiiiiiiiin

Waitinn for someone to give me some factual news

Ba-da-da- Ba-da-da- Ba-da-da- Bah bah bah bah......got them old post Y2k blues Lord Oh Yeah..

-- Witch Doctor (bobmarley@hotmail.com), January 10, 2000

Answers

Gawd, I wish we had sound in this forum. I would love to hear this song. I hear it in my head as a country tune with a voice like Hank Snow. I doubt that is what the author intended however with an email like bobmarley@hotmail. Oh well

I got them yyyyy - tooo --kay blues!

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 10, 2000.


Works well with guitar riff (open D tuning & slide)!

-- (jigsaw@puzzle.now), January 10, 2000.

O-O-O-O-O-O-OH, YEAAAAAHHH.... (Lonnnng, long guitar-drum chord, fading at last, as audience goes crazy with glee and appreciation!)

Thanks, WD Thanks a lot!

-- Liz (lizpavek@hotmail.com), January 10, 2000.


I like that, Bob. (I also like your hair; I am reminded of a now-defunct group called Christafari, who did excellent reggae.)

-- DB (tomG@h.com), January 10, 2000.

Hot gang, I think I'll open a new account and call myself Y2Blue

-- charlie in houston (cml@workmail.com), January 10, 2000.


Du Du Du, my haid is lonely as I sit alone, in the reeps of fifty cans of tuna that I intend to keep

I was the Red Hen while everyone else clucked off Still think !! I am the Smartest Clucker of them All!!

Go Guitar!!!

-- Love all (music@anytime.septopera.com), January 10, 2000.


He stole that from me. I AM THE TRUE Y2KBLUE!!!!!

-- mike in houston (mmorris67@hotmail.com), January 10, 2000.

Why didn't the lines break, where I originally wrote them? Okay, use your imagination.

-- Love of (allmusic@septopera.com), January 10, 2000.

Clapton,

Well I'm walkin' down the highway, got my suitcase in my hand....

Did I win the spam???

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 10, 2000.


SPAM I AM

GAWD I HATE GREEN EGGS AND SPAM!

SPAM I AM...I DON'T EVEN THINK THIS STUFF IS BIODEGRADEABLE

Y2K WAS ALL A HOAX TO GET RID OF WAREHOUSES OF SPAM!

SPAM I AM...MY DOG WON'T EVEN EAT THIS STUFF...HIS PEDIGREE DOG FOOD LOOKED BETTER THAN SPAM...should be outlawed along with broccoli!

WHAT IS SPAM....DOES IT COME FROM AN ANIMAL...THE BEST PART IS THE JELLY ON TOP...YES SPAM I AM...SURE HATE TO BE SPAMMED...BUT NOW, SPAM I AM

-- YUCK (SPAM@IAM.COM), January 10, 2000.



uh...nevermind

It's a guy thing, right?

-- Cin (Cinlooo@aol.com), January 11, 2000.


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