Little Home Computer

Lyrics © 1985 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa. To the tune of ``The Holly and the Ivy'' (traditional)

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G C G

My little home com puter

C G

Is wonderful to see

C G D G C G

With the spinn ing of its little floppy disk

D7 G C G D7 G

And the glow ing C R T.

I got a home computer

'Twas on a Christmas day.

At first I didn't like it

But I guess it's here to stay.

The instructions for my computer

Are written, if you please,

In a mixture of Middle English

And pidgin Japanese.

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My computer can play music,

It warbles like a bird

That's got drunken on fermented berries--

Wierdest thing you ever heard.

My computer it draws pictures

On its little TV screen.

Most expensive box of fingerpaints

Anyone has ever seen.

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Oh to use a home computer

Is as easy as can be;

Any ten-year-old can get it right.

Wonder what is wrong with me.

I can't program my computer

It does only what I say.

I only wish that I could write a program

That would make it go away.

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