(by Scott Taylor, with apologies to Billy Joel, sung to the tune of ‘Piano Man’)<\/p>\n
It’s nine o’ clock at the iTunes store,
\nA phenomenal crowd’s logging on,
\nThere’s an old man on AOL
\nFinding music from ages bygone.<\/p>\n
He says, “Steve can you play me a memory?
\n“I’m not really sure how it goes,
\n“But I typed in a track and got album names back!
\n“And I’m not even wearing my clothes!”<\/p>\n
Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.
\nSell us a song, you’re the iTunes man,
\nSell us a song tonight.
\nWell, we’re all in the mood for a melody,
\nAnd you’ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n
Now Claude at Vivendi’s a friend of mine
\nAnd his business is selling CDs.
\nAnd knows the solution for store distribution,
\nBut he’s worried about MP3s.
\nHe says “Steve I believe this is killing us!
\n“All these pirates don’t pay us a dime.
\n“Well I’m sure that you could be a billionaire,
\n“If you could sell music online.”<\/p>\n
Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.
\nSell us a song, you’re the iTunes man,
\nSell us a song tonight.
\nWell, we’re all in the mood for a melody,
\nAnd you’ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n
Now Paul is an iPod enthusiast
\nWho listens to Jazz with his wife
\nAnd he’s chatting with Maxine, who’s still in the rap scene
\nAnd probably will be for life.
\nAnd the waitress is downloading Dixie Chicks
\nAs the dial-up man slowly gets Stones
\nYes they’re sharing the bandwidth from Akamai
\nBut it’s better than P2P clones.<\/p>\n
Sell us a song, you’re the iTunes man,
\nSell us a song tonight.
\nWell, we’re all in the mood for a melody,
\nAnd you’ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n
Its a pretty good crowd for just Macintosh
\nAnd the PC guys give me a smile
\nCause they know that iTunes will be Windows-bound soon
\nIf they just can hold out for a while.<\/p>\n
And the AAC sounds like originals
\nAnd rights management isn’t a pain,
\nAnd they sit at the screens of their iTunes machines
\nAnd say “Man, this is worse than cocaine!”<\/p>\n
Sell us a song, you’re the iTunes man,
\nSell us a song tonight.
\nWell, we’re all in the mood for a melody,
\nAnd you’ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n