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Livejournal Shanty
Words & Music by Brooke Lunderville, 2006.
I wanted to write a sea shanty. But I don't exactly spend all day working on the sea. Or working on anything, really. "Gee," I thought to myself, "what DO I do all day?" Oh. Oh yeah.
My mother wishes to note that she has known how to google for years, thank you very much. :)

PDF leadsheet for Livejournal Shanty.
Quicktime movie! This is us singing part of the LJ shanty at Orycon 2006. Man, I'm so orange. Thanks to Tony Fabris for this clip!
MP3 of vixy & Tony covering LJ shanty live! This is Michelle Dockrey singing, accompanied by Tony Fabris, at open filk at Conterpoint in 2007. (Check out their website!) Thanks Vixy & Tony! And thanks to Harold Stein for recording it!
MP3 recording of Brooke & John singing Livejournal Shanty. (This recording is creative commons licensed, the video and the vix & tony recording are NOT.)

	And it's way hey, me lads, click on refresh again	A  -  D   A
	There might be a new posting by one of your friends	D  A  E7 -
	Yes it's way hey, me boys, leave a comment or two	A  -   D   A
	It's not like you've got something better to do		D  A  E7  A

It's a hard life a-workin' the livejournal trail	Am  -  Em  Am
Updating all day and all night without fail		Am  -  Dm  Am
If I didn't, I know that you would be a wreck, as	Am  -  Dm  Am
You'd never discover what I had for breakfast		Dm Am E7 Am

	And it's way hey, me lads...

And it's upload the icons, change your colour scheme	Am  -  Em  Am
Answer new quizzes, HAUL AWAY at the memes		Am  -  Dm  Am
Write a lengthy disclaimer for your profile page	Am  -  Dm  Am
Advising discretion for those under age			Dm Am E7 Am

	And it's way hey, me lads...

And let's bitch 'cause they changed the UI without telling	Am  -  Em  Am
My icon's a goat now and it won't check my spelling		Am  -  Dm  Am
I don't ask for much, but I'd like to be told			Am  -  Dm  Am
When the parent company's parent company's 			Dm  Am
parent company's parent company's 				Dm  Am
parent company's parent company's 				Dm  Am
company's been sold						E7   Am

	And it's way hey, me lads...

I'm not scared that I'll be found by my employer	Am  -  Em  Am
If they fire me I'll get an EFF lawyer			Am  -  Dm  Am
But I'm still going to lock all my entries away		Am  -  Dm  Am
My mother learned how to use Google today		Dm Am E7 Am

	And it's way hey, me lads, click on refresh again	A  -  D   A
	There might be a new posting by one of your friends	D  A  E7 -
	Yes it's way hey, me boys, leave a comment or two	A  -   D   A
	It's not like you've got something better to do		D  A  E7  A
	Yeah, you haven't got anything better to do		D  A  E7  A
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. Note that this license does NOT apply to the quicktime movie provided by Tony Fabris, or to the MP3 recording of vixy & Tony provided by Harold Stein, but DOES apply to the song itself and to the MP3 recording of Brooke & John.