Hackers

© 1985 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.

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	Am
	When the shades of night have fallen

	Em
And the	world in darkness lies

	Am
They a	wake from fitful slumber

	G	C	G
And they	open blea	ry	eyes

	C
When com	puters 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 comp uters

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