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Once I Built a Website

from Sketches and Demos by Douglas Hamilton

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Written during my Dotcom days

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Once I built a website, made it sell
Made it sell all the time
Suddenly our startup’s not doin’ so well
Brother can you spare a dime?

Once we had some partners, names you’d know
Traffic startin’ to climb
I’m shakin’ my head wondrin’ where’d they go
Brother can you spare a dime?

Workin’ in our cubes, gee we looked swell
Coding sixteen hours a day
Pissed away our lives makin’ HTML
For options instead of good pay!

Once we had investors, a full time staff
And a damn good website
Now it’s disappeared without a trace
Brother can you spare a dime?

Workin’ on the site, checkin’ those links
Laboring deep in some basement
Never to emerge into the light
‘Till we’ve improved our search engine placement

Once I had some options, I was gonna retire
In a couple years time
Now they’re worth about three cents a share
Brother can you spare a dime?

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from Sketches and Demos, released March 21, 2012

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Douglas Hamilton Bristol, UK

Doug Hamilton puts his finger on what's terrifyingly funny about modern life and just keeps probing. In other hands, this could be dire, but Doug has a special way of making you laugh AND making you think. Doug grew up in America, came of age in Scotland, and has been bouncing between the US and the UK ever since. He never saw an instrument he didn't want to play. ... more

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