INPE's network song or Network Blues
Music by George Gershwin (Summertime, aria of Porgy and Bess)
Adapted by: Sam Houston Andrew (Big Brother & The Holding Company)
Vocals: Janis Joplin (In Memoriam)
Lyrics by Danton Nunes, after a summer storm that knocked the net down.
(lead vocal) (back vocals)
Summertime
but living ain't easy oh!
lightning strikes
and the modem blows the modem blows (twice)
INPE is rich
buildings are so good looking oh!
but the net, little baby
slips on telephone wires
no more e-mail
Web or ftp yeah!
it's like an e-jail
how worse could it be? could it be (twice)
INPE is rich...
One of these mornings
I'm gonna call Madruga¹ again Madruga!
To fix that bloody thing
till comes the next rain the next rain (twice)
INPE is rich...
When will we go optical?
when will the fibres run? run!
I'm rather skeptical,
It's no joke, it's no fun. it's no joke, it's no fun.
¹ Madruga (in memoriam) and Divino are the heroes that install
and maintain the wires around INPE campus. Hard workers and nice fellows.