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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Humorous music (please read if you liked the last song)
Message-ID: <339@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 12:38:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 12:38:18 1985
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*** YOUR MESSAGE ***

I am starting to receive requests for the file of LOTS songs.  First of all,
for the uninitiated, LOTS is Low Overhead (Largely Overloaded) Time Sharing
at Stanford.  I hesitate to provide information on obtaining the whole file for
several reasons.  First of all, it is BIG.  There are some 75 - 80 songs,
comprising a 101 block file on UN*X.  More importantly however, LOTS does
not have the manpower to deal with requests from all over the world for 
files.  A copy was sent to me as a favor to an alum, former user and 
contributer.

As a consolation, I will be posting songs at the rate of one every week to
ten days, so that you all will have a new regular feature to look forward to.
Below is the intro that appears in the file and another song.  I hope you like
them.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

From: E.Ernest at CERAS (Ernest W. Adams)
Subject: Introduction


     These are the LOTS Songs. Their serious collection first began around
December of 1979, although a couple, most notably "The Man Who Never Returned"
and "I Don't Know LOTS" were around for quite a while before that. Both of
those songs were written by Karl B. Young, who would come around LOTS of an
evening, guitar in hand, and provide the users with a brief respite from their
efforts.

     After a while, Karl began threatening to graduate, and it became
apparent that if something were not done soon, these gems would
disappear like the last of the Mohicans. I asked him to put the words
on the system. At the same time, I broadcast a general plea for any
and all other known LOTS Songs to be brought forward for
immortalization. While no other old ones turned up, people began
submitting new ones in droves. After a while, there were even enough
to have a small "concert", and so the LOTS Concerts were born. Every
quarter (that I can afford it), near the end, when the load gets up to
40 and the queue to 240, and the users begin to bring in sleeping bags
and No-Doz, the hackers host a free (donations GLADLY accepted) drink
and munchies songfest, first at CERAS, then at Terman. New and old
songs are sung, and a good time is had by all.

     Bureaucratic note: All the LOTS Songs are the personal property
of the authors and appear here with their consent. Brief quotes for
review or illustrative purposes are permissible; however, any complete
transcription must be arranged with the author in advance. In cases
where the songs are quoted, common courtesy suggests that the quotations
be properly credited.

				Enjoy!
				   Ernest W. Adams
				   Self-Appointed LOTS Archivist


From: E.Ernest
Subject: Early Morning Queue


Early Morning Queue

lyrics by Ernest Adams
sung to the tune of "Early Morning Rain" by Gordon Lightfoot

In the early morning queue
With a listing in my hand
With a worry in my heart
Waitin' here in CERAS-land.
I'm a long way from sleep
How I miss a good meal so
In the early mornin' queue
With no place to go.

There on terminal number 9
Pascal run all set to go
But I'm waitin' in the queue
With this code that ever grows.
Now the lobby chairs are soft
But that can't make the queue move fast
Hey there it goes my friend
I've moved up one at last.
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					-- Mark A.
					...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph