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When I Was A Boy by Joe Bethancourt
When I Was A Boy
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Verse 1]
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When I was a boy our Nintendo
F C
Was carved from an old Apple tree
F C
And we used garden hose to connect it
D G
To our steam-powered color tv.
F C
But it still beat that ancient Atari
F C
'Cuz I almost went blind, don'tcha know,
F C
Playing Breakout and Pong on a video game
D G
Hooked up to the radio.
[Chorus]
F C
And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
F C
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
F C
Through blizzards in summer and winter
D G
Back in the good old days.
F C
Back when Fortran was not even Three-tran
F C
And the PC was only a toy
F C
And we did our computing by gaslight
D G
When I was a boy.
[Verse 2]
F C
When I was a boy all our networks
F C
Were for hauling in fish from the sea--
F C
Our bawd rate was eight bits an hour (and she was worth it!),
D G
And our IP address was just 3.
F C
And you kids who complain that the World Wide Web
F C
Is too slow oughtta cut out your bitchin',
F C
'Cuz when I was a boy every packet
D G
Was delivered by carrier pigeon
[Chorus]
F C
And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
F C
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
F C
Through blizzards in summer and winter
D G
Back in the good old days.
F C
Back when Fortran was not even Two-tran
F C
And the mainframe was only a toy
F C
And we did our computing by torchlight
D G
When I was a boy.
[Verse 3]
F C
When I was a boy our IS shop
F C
Built relational tables from wood,
F C
And we wrappered our data in oilcloth
D G
To preserve it the best that we could.
F C
And we carried our bits in a bucket,
F C
And our mainframe weighed 900 tons,
F C
And we programmed in ones and in zeros
D G
And sometimes we ran out of ones.
[Chorus]
F C
And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
F C
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
F C
Through blizzards in summer and winter
D G
Back in the good old days.
F C
Back when Fortran was not even One-tran
F C
And the abacus? Only a toy!
F C
And we did our computing in primordial darkness
G C
When I was a boy.
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