Hackers
            Copyright 1985 Stephen Savitzky.	CC by-nc-sa/4.0.

Am
When the shades of night have fallen
        Em
And the world in darkness lies
      Am
They awake from fitful slumber
         G        C  G
And they open bleary eyes
        C
When computers run their fastest 
       F               G
By the console's lurid light
          F                C
Comes the hacker's hour of glory
        G  C  G     C
Hackers do it every night.


    C
    So here's to the midnight hackers 
            G             C  G
    And the deeds they do by night
        C
    May all their bugs be easy
        G                  C  G
    And may all their code be tight
              C
    May their hardware run like lightning
           F                   C
    May it stay up through the night
            F              C
    Hackers do it with computers
             G  C  G     C
    And they do it every night.

No higher level language 
Our intentions can express
So with dirty old machine code 
Our attentions we will press
If we must we'll try for hours 
Getting every statement right
In our lowest level programs 
Hackers do it byte by byte.

    refrain
Now microcode is nasty
But you frequently will find
It's the only thing computers have
To motivate their mind.
It takes sleazy tricks and pure brute force
To get it all to fit
So for heavy microcoding
Hackers do it bit by bit.

    refrain


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