Uncle Ernie's Lyrics Copyright 1985 Stephen Savitzky. CC by-nc-sa/4.0 To the tune of ``Finnegan's Wake'' (traditional). When Babbage's Birthday rolls around We hold our annual Shopping Spree With every C-P- U you buy Get a floppy disk completely free! We've acres of used computers here The biggest selection in the land At prices from just fifty cents To seven hundred and fifty grand! It's Uncle Ernie's Used Computer Babbage's Birthday bargain bash Once-in-a-lifetime discount deals All sales are final and strictly cash! We've Altairs, Imsais, Apple Threes And PC Juniors by the score And if you fancy something big A mainframe's only slightly more! Take that 7090 there, Such magtape drives did y'ever see? And whether it runs with tape or cards Get a floppy disk completely free! If energy bills are out of sight Don't sit and shiver in the cold To help you beat the cost of heat We're offering real-time control. Straight from the nuclear industry Here's a real hot number just for you It glows in the dark a little so It makes a dandy night-light too! Now in the robot section here We've Heathkit Heros by the score And a couple of custom models that Were only used in one star war! Robbie here is a great machine Did you ever see such a friendly face? The price is very low because We found him drifting lost in space! Most of the chords notated as \chord{G} are actually played xxDGBx, i.e. just the three open strings of the G chord. In other words, fake it. In case you were wondering, Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1792. He invented the stored-program digital computer, which he called the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine was also the first unfinished computer project. Contrary to popular belief, the mechanical precision of the time was quite capable of producing it, but Babbage kept changing the design and eventually ran out of funding. It's an old story. Online: http://Steve.Savitzky.net/Songs/uncle/lyrics.txt Automatically generated with flktran from ../Lyrics/uncle.flk.