When I Was a Boy
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- A song for anyone who's ever tried to get nostalgic around their elders.
[Here's another song • The Hero of Canton ]
with
Mouse on Guitar
Toby on Banjo
Rob on Uke
Michael on Banjo
Matthew on Fiddle
Written by Frank Hayes
Thanks to Alex for help with filming
Lyrics:
When I was a boy, our Nintendo
was carved from an old apple tree
And we used garden hose to connect it
to our steam-powered colour TV
But it still beat that ancient Atari
'Cause I damn near went blind don't you know
Playing Breakout and Pong, on a video game
hooked up to the radio
And we walked seven miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot and uphill both ways
through blizzards in summer and winter
back in the good old days
Back when FORTRAN was not even THREETRAN
and the PC was only a toy
we did our computing by gaslight
When I was a boy
When I was a boy all our networks
were for hauling in fish from the sea.
Our baud rate was 8 bits an hour (and she was worth it)
And our IP address was 3
And you kids who complain that your mobile network's too slow
ought to cut out your bitchin'
'cause when I was a boy every packet
was delivered by carrier pigeon.
And we walked 15 miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot and uphill both ways
through blizzards in summer and winter
back in the good old days
Back when FORTRAN was not even TWOTRAN
and the mainframe was only a toy
and we did our computing by torchlight
When I was a boy
When I was a boy our IS shop
built relational tables from wood
and we wrappered our data in oilcloth
to preserve it the best that we could
And we carried our bits in a bucket
and our mainframe weighed 900 tons
and we programmed in ones and in zeroes
and sometimes we ran out of ones
And we walked 30 miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot and uphill both ways
through blizzards in summer and winter
Back when FORTRAN was not even ONETRAN
and the abacus, only a toy
we did our computing in primordial darkness (You had darkness?)
When I was a boy
folk punk isn't dead, it's just adjusting itself
Is this part of an AI reward system?
Can you get this professionally recorded? I'd love a fully mastered version :D
Brilliant thank you! I was only having this discussion with my son when he was complaining his core i7 with 32gb memory was too slow…. Yet I learned to code on pencil mark cards in batch runs on the schools pdp11/03….
This may be one of the greatest achievements of humanity to date
Damnit, you're not _allowed_ to be good at everything!
Wanna bet he just doesn't put the things he isn't good at on youtube?
So that's why he never uploads woodworking videos.
Knowing my luck, he's probably good at that too, and is just choosing not to brag about it.
This is really funny because I'm actually just finishing up a woodworking project, but I haven't filmed much of it so there probably won't be a video. Nothing fancy though, just a Pikler Triangle for my niece.
SEE I TOLD YOU
*_GRAAAAAAAH_*
That is beautiful. I feel like this should become the pub-hymn of the nerds and geeks. With everyone singing on a friday evening :D
This is now my favorite song.
Oh dear... this sounds like me talking about my early days with mainframes,110 baud modems, and Teletypes and punched tapes. Hahahaha... Loved this.
Can't believe Robert Miles has so many talents.
I did not expect to like this- i loved it
Great song! Robert, pls put the lyrics in the doobley-doo.
Good idea
"back in the good old days" is missing from the last chorus
This is extremely cool and good
this seemed more hilarious to me than it should
Now, here's a classic!
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down
Luxury.
wow that was most unexpected :D very cool though :)
I want to learn this song, it's the best thing I've heard in weeks. Nice job, Rob.
Woah, how did I end up here? I LOVE this.
For those asking for the lyrics check out www.madmusic.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=16150
Turns out, you can sing this to the melody of Another New World by Josh Ritter. And vice versa.
Huh! I actually have a recording of that song with this same group:
soundcloud dot com/nottinghacktimeband/another-new-world
I'd really love to read the lyrics of that song! :)
I've added them to the description. Tried to add subtitles too but youtube can't get the timing anywhere close to right
@@RobertMiles2 The last "back in the good old days" is missing in the description.
brilliant
A masterpiece.
simply brilliant!
that must have been vary strange road, for it to be uphill both ways. like some kind of treacherous teeter totter.
Soooooooooooooo gooooooooooood!!!! hahahahaha
even if you don't get this song professionally recorded, can we get a download link for the audio because I want to have this as my ringtone!
I feel old.
The lyrics made it.
This is brilliant! Id like a recorded version on Spotify for my Playlists!
This is great and I want a version of it with professional quality audio.
That was very good. You need a better mic.
byers & the lone gunmen
holy shite i've been binging your videos since yesterday and something was troubling me till i saw this and it came together. you're a troubadour doing ai research on the side innit
Feels very Mountain Goats, or at least that was my initial reaction.
The fourth-last line of the lyrics is missing in the description.
Eeee looxury
Our IP address was 3
ah, 1998
Hi
/tears
lol
chords?
Ill donate approx. 1.5 usd in btc if one writes the lyrics :D Or ill take some BTC and do it myself
Gaben, stop playing violin
and get back to HL3