Computer Filk

Computer Filk on the Web

Last updated December 9, 2001

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Songbooks

alt.devilbunnies Filk
alt.sysadmin.recovery Songs from the Scary Devil Monastery.
Computer Songs & Poems. An extensive collection. Very extensive. Must see it to believe it. This is the HTML version. There's also an uncompressed text and a compressed text version.
Computer Christmas Carols at Negaduck's Comic Relief. Uncredited.
Computer Filk at The Black Book of Locksley. Zipped file.
Bruce Dern's Internet Song Parodies Those dern filkers!
The Internet Songbook
Brian Dunlap's Humor Page
Filkers Unanimous, also accepting contributions at the bottom of the page.
Geek Musique: a very stylish computer filk site by Doug Hamilton of the Geektones.
The Hack 'n Roll Party
Humor Central
Joy Green's Miscellaneous and alt.fan.pratchett Filks
Ibiblio.org's directory. Also here.
kite.com's directory.
Laugh Along with GNU
Richard Murray's Filks
Nerd Songs
The OxIRC Filk Project
Paul Phillips
Poppyfields. Probably the largest collection of computer filks out there.
PRAHCreation Computer Filk by PRAHC.
Silly Computer Songs
Steve Savitzky's Songs
Sysadmin Songs
Techno-Filk Songs by Isaac Bonewits
Techno-Filk IV: The Return of Insanity
The Ultimate Parody Site's songs about Bill Gates and Microsoft
UNIX songs
Jeff Vinocur's CS Filks
Zipped collection of computer songs

15 Bugs by Joel Polowin 16 Bits by Tony Williams and Bill Mulert
A Is For Apple by Douglas Spencer
The ABCs of UNIX by Duane Bailey and Al Hough. version 1.1 with John Hagerman
Abort, Retry, Ignore by G. Gallent, 1993. Also at The Internet Songbook as written by Cool4u2view, and at Omri's,
Wrecked Humor, and Comic Relief uncredited.
After Dark by Bob Kanefsky. Flying toasters!
Alice's PDP-10 by Rob Austein. Also at Mefco
Always Look on the Bright Side of DrOsS by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter). Also at Poppyfields.
American Pie -- Hacker Style Author unknown.
Annie by Bob Kanefsky
Another Glitch in the Call by Knappy 8350438 @ UWAVM (Sarah Hartwell). Also at Melissa Binde's and Omri's. Uncredited. A LISP song.
APL by Richard Stallman. Scroll down.
Ballad of the Y2K Author unknown. (One site noted that RJB sent it to Joke of the Day.com, another thanked Colleen Cameron.)Also at North Orange County Computer Club, John Mark Ministries and The Year 2000 Disaster.
Batch Up Your Shellscripts by Daniel P. Dern
BeOS Talking Blues by Rich Popovic. MP3.
Berkeley, California by David Barr and Ken Hornstein with Greg Nagy
Bits by Bob Kanefsky
Blowin' in the Window by Dave Aronson
Bohemian Rhapsody (Object Oriented) by John K. Stevenson
Bohemian Warranty by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter).
The Bored Programmer by Merav B. Hoffman
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Microsoft Ode v3.0) by Terence Chua
Bring Back My Dump Tape to Me by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
The Bug Came Back by Joel Polowin
Bugs Author unknown.
By Jove by Dan Bennett
Bye, Bye, Packard Bell by Roach
Calm Down by Kathy Mar, also at Maggi Rohde's
Can't Parse This by Patrick Widener. Also at Nathan's.
Castle Wolfenstein in 3-D by Edward Goldstein
Code by Bob Kanefsky. Also at Bob's Filk Lyrics
The Computer Hillbillies by Gina Lofaro. Also at
Kelch and Washington Apple Pi
Computer: The Ancient Myth by Jean Ann Donnel
The Computer User's Grace by Chris Rolleston
Cracking Computers by Peter da Silva
The Criminal by Steve Brinich
Daddy's Other Little Girl by Bob Kanefsky
Datawocky by Jack Stack. Also at Allegedly Funny, uncredited.
The Day the Old PC Died by H.R. Taffs (?)
The Day SunOS Died by N.R. "Norm" Lunde
Debugging by Richard Stallman.
Disobedience, or The Advanced Player, by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
Two sequels to Bill Sutton's "Do It Yourself": Do It Yourself (Win95 Version) by Sherman Dorn, and Do It Yourself patch level 3 by Steve Savitzky. Also here.
Do You Love an Apple/IBM? by Laramie Sasseville
Documentation by Dave Weingart, also at Dave's page.
DOOM.WAD Ditty by Dave Aronson
Down Again by Anitra L. Freeman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Snide by Steve Brinich.
Dr. Seuss Comes to Your Computer Author unknown.
Eleanor Rigby -- Hacker Style. Author unknown.
Eleanor Rigby with computer filk lyrics by Robert Munafo and anon.
Emacs the Elephant by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
The Eternal Flame by Bob Kanefsky. To Lisp with love. Julia Ecklar singing a Real Audio version. (1.5MB)
Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code by Al Pena. Also at Also at SWIL, PRAHC, and kite.com, uncredited.
A Filename of 8+3 by Roger Burton-West
The First GNU by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
Fooropa by Tim Park
For Auld Free Time by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
FORTRAN by Thomas Koenig
Fractals by Avram Grumer
The Free Software Song by Richard Stallman. An .au file is also available.
Future Shock by Darren Zieger
GDB by Deanna Rubin
A Geek's Drinking Song by Dave Weingart
The Ghost in the Machine by Dave Weingart, also at his page.
Gigabytes Song (Song of Failing Disks) Author unknown.
The Girl Who Dreams in ADA by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter). May offend....
Goodbye, Billy Gates by Terence Chua
The Grey Flannel Lion by Melissa Pinol
Great PEXpectations by Dan Bennett
GUI Man by Deanna Stephanie Rubin
Hack at the Opera, the LP filk by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
The Hacker Came Back by Jacob Sommer
Hacker Jack and the Y2K by Minstrel (Chris Malme)
Hacker's American Pie Author unknown.
A Hacker's Lot by Brad Needham
Hacker's Revenge by Dave Weingart
Hacking Song by Peter da Silva
Hacking the Tivo by Dave Aronson
Hackingham Palace by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter). AKA "They've Changed the Passwords at Buckingham Palace".
Heart of the Apple Lisa by Jordin Kare
Hewlett Packard Blues by Anita W. Cantor
Hot Rod Cray by Rich Brown
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Teenage Cyberpunk by Margo Lynn Hablutzel
I Am a Super Micro by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
I Gave My Love an Apple (Computer) by Stan Kelly-Bootes
If I Only Had a Cray by Dave Aronson
I'm Looking Over a Key Named Clover by Bob Kanefsky
I've Got a Brand New Server Binary by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
If I Had a SCSI by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
If I Only Had a Cray by Dave Aronson
I Should Have Been a Dance Major by Demosthenez. The horror.
In Bleakest Mordor by Bob Kanefsky
The Irish CPU by Sarah Elizabeth Miller. Also at Adumus' page.
It's Still Hackin' Perl to Me by Deanna Stephanie Rubin
It's the End of Our DOS As We Know It by Matthew S. Huber.
The Last Silicon Valley Pirate by Astrid Sigurdsdottir
Macintosh Town by Bob Kanefsky. Also at Bob's Filk Lyrics
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Hackers by Mike Van Pelt
Mark's $2000 A/V by Epsilon (Aaron Peori)
The Maven Author unknown
Microserf by Kristil Tillman
A Microsoft Christmas by Jean Komatsu
Microsoft Pie by Cujo the Wonder Puppy
Mr. Burch by Deanna Stephanie Rubin
Motherboard Running by Mole (Paul Smith). Scroll on down.
MS-Y2K by Tom Smith
NetBIOS Lite by Martin J. Carter
The New Computer Blues by Arlene "Callie" Hills
Newton PIE by Avi Drissman
Not a Boolean by Joerg Anslik
Nut Works #16: Song parody issue
O Modem Lights by Illiad
Ode to the Pr1me by Jed Hartman
OGLing Around the Universe by Dan Bennett
Old FORTH Religion by Len Zettel. Yup, Sarah Zettel's father.
On the PC by Tom Smith, and its upgrade, PC99.
One for the 'Puters by Susie Lee
Perl White by Martin J. Carter
PC99 by Tom Smith
PGP by Leslie Fish.(Real Audio file, 520K)
PGP by Lee Gold.
Pict Song 2.1 by Isaac Bonewits
A Piece of Code by You by Gail Rosen
Pirate Jenny's Granddaughter by Bob Kanefsky. Also at Bob's Filk Lyrics.
The Pointy-Haired Man by Steve Brinich. A tribute to Dilbert's manager. Scroll down to the end.
Pop Goes the Stack Frame by Jim Jordan
Prince of Clusters by Deanna Stephanie Rubin
Product Deadline in the Valley by Jed Hartman
The Programmer's Alphabet by Steve Savitzky. Also at Adumus' page.
Programmer's Plight by Steven Chai
Programmers' Waltz by Dave Weingart, also at Melissa Binde's page.
Puff the Fractal Dragon and at SWIL. Author unknown.
Purple Hacks by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
The Ravenous Mac by Arne C. Knudson. Also at kite.com.
The Ravin' by Joe Kesselman
RTFM by Jeffrey Hitchin
Recursive Memory Allocation by Bob Kanefsky
The S-100 Bus by Frank Hayes, with MIDI of its tune "The Bonny Ship the Diamond". The spelling is unreliable.
The Saucy Programmer by Bob Kanefsky. Also at Bob's Filk Lyrics
Sleeping in the Clusters by Jason Riek
The Software Hacker's Prayer by Dave Weingart, also at Dave's page.
Searching for Rules to the Game by Bob Kanefsky. "Adventure".
The Software Blues by Fred Barrett
Song 586 by Willard Goosey
The Spellchecker Song Author unknown.
Stuck in the Microlab Queue by Jed
The Sun'll Come Up Tomorrow by Jim Cordy
The Sysadmin Blues by Julian Anderson, aka "Core Dumped Blues". Also at Omri and kite.com, uncredited.
The System Engineer's Anthem by Dave Weingart, also at Dave's page. Scroll on down.
The System Is Going to Crash. Author unknown. Also at Omri's and kite.com
Teach Your Users by Dave Weingart. Also at Dave's page.
Tech Support by Jeffrey Hitchin. MP3. Also at his page.
Tech Support by Maureen S. O'Brien
The Tech Support Crew by Mephron (Geoffrey Depew)
Tech Support Hold Blues by Rachel S. Silverman
Tech Support Lament by Illiad
TechnoNerdboy by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
The TeddyClones Picnic by MaJoC (Martin J. Carter)
Terminally Ill by Scott "Cosmo" Snyder, also at Maggi Rohde's.
The Texture-Map Song by Dan Bennett
They're Guilty! by Terence Chua
Threes: Rev. 1.1 by Duane Elms. Also at at Digital Tradition with MIDI.
Threes Rev. 3.11 by Geoffrey Avalon. At Digital Tradition, with MIDI.
Till Daddy Takes Her Keyboard Away by Rachel S. Silverman
The Times They Are A-Changin' Author unknown.
Tommix by Timotej Ecimovic
Trufflehunter by Dan Bennett. Debugging.
'Twas the Cyber Night Before Christmas Uncredited.
'Twas the Night Before Implementation Author unknown.
The Twelve Bugs of Christmas by Derek Cashman
Unix Wizard by Jamie Mason with additions by Wayne Throop. Also at: Omri's.
Upgrade to 10 Blues by Dan Bennett
VAXamaniacs by Jenn Scott, aka Mindwarp
VAXymandias by Dave Weingart
Virtual Monday by Dave Aronson
A Virtual World by Demosthenez
Web Surfin' by Allison Durno
What If Dr. Seuss Did Technical Writing? Uncredited. Also at Comic Relief
Windows Dies by Sneakers
Windows Hang Since Yesterday Author unknown.
Windows, MS-Windows by Nicholas Petreley
Windows on My Mind by Tom Holt (also here) and its sequel Windows Upgraded by Tom Holt (also here).
The World Inside the Crystal by Steve Savitzky. 1997 Pegasus Award, best science song.
The Worm Before Christmas by "by Clement C. Morris", a.k.a. David Bradley, Betty Cheng, Hal Render, Greg Rogers, and Dan LaLiberte
The Worm of Love by Terence Chua
Write in C by Donna at nic.csu.net. Also at Omri's, uncredited.
The Y2K Song: The Day the Software Died by Dr. Chordate
Haiku Error Messages with credits.