404: NOT FOUND Words: David Weingart ©1997 Music: "307 Ale" (Tom Smith) All Rights Reserved- lyrics posted with permission of the author There's pages you will see, me lads, on every site you hit There's "Marilynne's Bedroom," "JezzieCam Live!" and piles of other...stuff There's net and edu, org and com, and sites the whole world 'round And the most annoying thing you'll see Is 404: Not Found, me lads, 404: Not Found. CHORUS: 404: Not found, me lads, 404: Not found The document that you have tried to access ain't around Oh the network may be slow and dead Or the server may be down A thing seen often on the Web Is 404: Not found, me lads, 404: not found. It started out in Switzerland at a little lab called CERN Where a couple of the physicists would share what they had learned They coded up a protocol they called http And they never dreamed how often people afterwards would see CHORUS They let it out upon the world to see what it could do But they didn't count on overload by sev'ral powers of two A couple bytes per packet lost and things start running slow Then timeout hits and on your screen this message starts to show CHORUS I do my best, type the address, see what few bits I glean And what I mutter 'neath my breath quite frankly is obscene It takes a while to find a file, I don't know who's to blame But I'm sick of that error code and so I wrote this flame! CHORUS There's many pages you will see, at least if you get through Two hundred thousand access tries the same time just as you A host is moved, or can't be used, or maybe it's just fate And if you don't believe it try to use the World Wide Wait! FINAL CHORUS 404: Not found, me lads, 404: Not found The document that you have tried to access ain't around Oh the network may be slow and dead Or the server may be down You see it 'til you're raging red And you wonder where your data's fled There's nothing makes you hate the Web Like 404: Not found |