Story Behind The Song
Making light of the "open systems" situation that all systems engineers are now faced with.
Song Description
I'm a systems engineer for a large corporation and with "open systems", everything is now on Dell servers running Microsoft OS and why that gives me the blues.
| Song Length |
3:57 |
Genre |
Blues - Modern, Blues - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Stressed |
Subject |
Engineer, Comedy, Funny |
| Similar Artists |
James Taylor, Eric Clapton |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Systems Engineer Blues
Larry Carr (c) 2006
Parody of Steamroller Blues
Well I'm a systems engineer baby
Mr. Gates done gave me the blues
Yeah, I'm a systems engineer for ya' baby
Bill Gates done gave me a bad case of the blues
I gotta put on so many freakin' patches baby
All my friends call me 'Reboot'
Gotta rack up 4 new servers baby
And load this software from Honeywell
Yeah, I gotta rack up 4 new servers baby
And load everything they got up from Honeywell
And when the boss man says 'you're spending too much money
I tell him he can go straight to Dell
(Instrumental Break)
When I talk about retirement,
My buddy ask me "what's your plan"
Oh yeah when I, I talk about retirement baby
All my buddies say "Hey Reboot what's your plan"
It sho' won't have nuthin' to do with Windows, baby
Unless I go to Amsterdam
Oh yeah, server's down server's down
I just can't seem to can lose
These here low down
Boss complain'
Email rainin'
Career chokin'
System's broken
Under manned, virus scanned
Systems engineer blues