The Former Apple Founder Formally Known as Jobs (FAFFKNAJ)
                        by Perry R. Cook, January 1997
                        Copyright 1997, Perry R. Cook
        sung to the tune of (What if God was) One of Us?
                by Eric Bazilian of the Hooters
                (no, Joan Osborne did NOT write this song)

        first performed live by Perry Cook, voice 
                           and Luke DuBois, guitar
        at the Palataki, Thessaloniki, Greece Sept. 30, 1997
        ** = additional lyrics by Luke DuBois
        
        studio produced version available at: 
                        http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/Jobs.html

He wasn't just a geek.
Sure, he made blue boxes,
phone boxes to phreak.
Sell 'em to 'em cheap.
Then he met another Steve
who was a bigger dweeb then he was.

Yea, Yea, Jobs is good(great).
Yea, Yea, Jobs is great(good).
Yea, Yea, ...
What if Jobs was one of us?
Just a clod like one of us?
Not making gobs, but one of us?
Tryin' to find his way home.

They took a little glue
some wire, a keyboard,
and a 6502,
an old T.V. and by the
time those Steves were through.
They'd made a Vax for you and me, cuz.

Bridge and Chorus:
And Yea, Yea, ...
What if Jobs was one of us?
Not a slob like one of us?
**Coding Perl and C++
Trying to find his way home

They sold Apples I and II.
Then the Mac came out,
the stock went through the roof.
But then the Lisa made 'em 
give old Steve the boot.
He was a Jobs with no job.

NeXT came next and NeXT was cool.
With Objects, PostScript, Sound and
black to make you drool.
Next color, HP, Intel, Sun then
Jobs got cruel.
Layoff until the profit comes.

Bridge and Chorus:
Yea, Yea, ...
What if Jobs was one of us?
Not a slob like one of us?
**Filing Taxes without fuss.
Trying to find his way home.

Then a cartoon cowboy doll.
Showed Steve wasn't just a one shot
  guy at all.
Start with a Unicycle, lamp, and a ball
PIXAR makes millions of bucks.

Apple needs a new attack.
Gates and Grove winning,
clobbering the Mac.
Apple's sorry they
gave Steve Jobs the sack.
Next, Apple hires Steve back again!!!

Bridge and Chorus:
Yea, Yea,  ....
What if Jobs was one of us?
Not a slob like one of us?
Not making gobs, but one of us.
Trying to find his way home.
No one to call up on the phone.
'Cept maybe Gasse, Skully, whoever ....