Sixteen Clicks (filk)

[kjn]

A friend of mine was stuck at work doing a very basic operation over and over and over, so I wrote him this one to cheer him up, I hope.

For once, it's in English. Comments on how to improve rhythm and meter are welcome.


Some people say a man is made outta mud
An engineer's made outta neurons and blood
Neurons and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's bored and a back that's wrong

You click sixteen times, what do you get
De Quervain syndrome and maybe a cheque
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I trust my files to the sequential store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my grapher and I sat in the line
I clicked sixteen times on PLM code
And the straw boss said "Well a-bless my soul"

You click sixteen times, what do you get
De Quervain syndrome and maybe a cheque
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I trust my files to the sequential store

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One brain of neurons, one of silex
If the right one don't a-get you
Then the left one will

You click sixteen times, what do you get
De Quervain syndrome and maybe a cheque
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I trust my files to the sequential store