Words/Chords to the Eternal Flame

eternal_flame.sng

                    The Eternal Flame (God Wrote in Lisp)
                         Bob Kanefsky / Julia Ecklar
          
          
          F               G             C 
          I was taught assembler in my second year of school.
                F               G                    C 
          It's kinda like construction work, with a toothpick for a tool.
               F             G                C      Em    Am 
          So when I made my senior year, I threw my code away,
               F                                          G     C 
          And learned the way to program that I still prefer today.
          
          
                F                G                   C 
          Now, some folks on the Internet put their faith in C++.
                 F                 G               C 
          They swear that it's so powerful, it's what God used for us.
               F             G                   C         Em     Am 
          And maybe it lets mortals dredge their objects from the C.
              F                                       G       C 
          But I think that explains why only God can make a tree.
          
          
               F    G       C 
          For God wrote in Lisp code
                   F          G            C 
          When he filled the leaves with green.
                F       G            C       Am 
          The fractal flowers and recursive roots:
                    F                G 
          The most lovely hack I've seen.
                F     G       C                F        G      C 
          And when I ponder snowflakes, never finding two the same,
                 F             C   F                      G      C 
          I know  God likes a language with its own four-letter name.
          
          
                    F                G              C 
          Now, I've used a SUN under Unix, so I've seen what C can hold.
                F                            G 
          I've surfed for Perls, found what Fortran's for,
                    C 
          Got that Java stuff down cold.
                       F                    G 
          Though the chance that I'd write COBOL code
                 C        Em       Am 
          is a SNOBOL's chance in Hell.
                 F                                         G C 
          And I basically hate hieroglyphs, so I won't use APL.
          
          
                F                       G                C 
          Now, God must know all these languages, and a few I haven't named.
                   F                          G 
          But the Lord made sure, when each sparrow falls,
                     C 
          that its flesh will be reclaimed.
                   F                     G                   C Em    Am 
          And the Lord could not count grains of sand with a 32-bit word.
                F                                              G     C 
          Who knows where we would go to if Lisp weren't what he preferred?
          
          
               F    G       C 
          And God wrote in Lisp code
                  F        G         C 
          Every creature great and small.
                 F          G              C  Am 
          Don't search the disk drive for man.c,
                    F                G 
          When the listing's on the wall.
                F     G         C 
          And when I watch the lightning
                    F       G     C 
          Burn unbelievers to a crisp,
                  F           C       F 
          I know God had six days to work,
                         G       C 
          So he wrote it all in Lisp.
          
          
                F         C   F 
          Yes, God had a deadline.
                         G       C 
          So he wrote it all in Lisp.