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All together now, which lyric is the fabbest?
It’s the time you have all been waiting for: time to vote for your favourite spoof Beatles lyrics. We have whittled down the many entries we have published to three, and now it’s time to vote for your favourite. As an added incentive, anyone who votes will get by return our Backbytes Beatles lyrics songsheet, containing the shortlisted songs, plus the others we published.
First, Neil Haughton’s In My Life: ‘There are programs I’ll remember/All my life though some have changed/Some forever not for better/Some have gone and some remain/All these lines of code had their moments/With testers and friends I still can recall/Some still work and some are wobbly/On my screen I’ve debugged them all.’ To vote for it, email backbytes with the title Beatles Life.
Second, Gordon Thackray’s When I’m sixty-four: When I get older, losing my mind/Will I still know how/O O one one O O one, explicit sign/Twenty five is Hex O one nine/If I’d been out till Octal two three/Would I still be sure/Binary one double O double O O/O is sixty-four.’ To vote for it, email with the title Beatles 64.
Finally, Andy Cole submitted this rewrite of Strawberry Fields: ‘Let me shut you down/’Cause I’m going to/Ctrl-Alt-Delete/You’ve got me beat/I’m completely fed up with this/I’m going to Linux forever’. To vote for him, email with the title Beatles Strawberry.
On 8 December, we’ll tally the votes and announce the winner in the 15 December issue, just in time to get a Christmas bottle of champagne, while the rest of you huddle around an open fire and sing amusing IT-themed Beatles songs, using our songsheet.
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