At  04:45 PM 7/31/01, George Stachnik wrote:
>A Few years ago, (1997 to be exact), at the HPWorld conference in Chicago, Orly Larson and myself sung a song called "The Ballad of MPE".  Although I'm the guy who wrote the lyrics, I can no longer find them in any of my archives.  I know that somebody had them posted on the web at one time - but so far, no search engine has been able to find them.
>
>So - a plea from a poor songwriter - (yes - that's a reference to my musical skills, not my financial condition - actually it's a reference to both, but I digress...) if anybody has a copy of the lyrics to "The Ballad of MPE" from HPWorld 1997, please email them to me at [log in to unmask]

Searching the HP3000-L archives for "ballad" since 1997:

http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?S2=hp3000-l&q=ballad&s=&f=&a=1997&b=

The last entry on that list is the above quoted message. The first entry on that list (with almost identical subject and author :) can be found at:

http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind9709A&L=hp3000-l&P=R1950

And it appears to have the annotated lyrics therein.  :)

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