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Original song The Drugs Don't Work
Original artist The Verve
Filk author Tim Harris / Peter Glasscock / Christopher Poole
Intro  

The Keys Don't Work

All this talk of keyboard mapping
it's getting me down my love
With a hack in `termcap', remapping `pound'
this time `hash' can't be found

And I hope you're thinking of me
as I log in with `telnet'
Now the keys don't work
they just enter junk
and I'll never see my work again

Now the keys don't work
they just enter junk
and I'll never see my work again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
as I press down my `delete'
And if I get `(Help View)', then close it with `q'
and I'll `stty erase' again

Now the keys don't work
they just enter junk
and I'll never see my work again

Cause `vi', ooh...
if `emacs' fails, then you will too
just like `netscape'...
if you press `backspace', or `lynx' with `escape'

All this talk of keyboard mapping
it's getting me down my love
With a hack in `termcap', remapping `pound'
this time `hash' can't be found

Now the keys don't work
they just enter junk
and I'll never see my work again

Cause `vi', ooh...
if `emacs' fails, then you will too
just like `netscape'...
if you press `backspace', or `lynx' with `escape'

And if you get `^H', then just let me know
and I'll `stty erase' again

Now the keys don't work
they just enter junk
and I'll never see my work again

Yeah I'll never see my work again
Yeah I'll never see my work again
Yeah I'll never see my work again
Yeah I'll never see my work again

It's never gonna work, It's never gonna work
no more, no more, no more, no more, no more
... fade

- Messrs Harris, Glasscock and Poole
- (with apologies to The Verve)

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