s X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 2499Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 10/3/90 VAX/VMS V5.3; site spcvxb.spc.edu h Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!umeecs!msi-s0.msi.umn.edu!sctc.com!boebert" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The IBM Songbook - Message-ID: <1990Jul29.141917.19460@sctc.com> % From: boebert@sctc.com (Earl Boebert)  Date: 29 Jul 90 14:19:17 GMTh References: <405@synsys.UUCP> <1990Jul24.135805.8988@mips2.cr.bull.com> <1990Jul24.153420.1382@sctc.com>5 Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation 
 Lines: 237  L This was posted to alt.folklore.urban by mistake ... senile dementia strikes again!   -----------   % Somebody owes me a drink for this ...    MARCH ON WITH IBM    Verse:   The fame of IBM  Spreads across the seven seas, Our standards fly aloft, Proudly waving in the breeze,  With T.J. Watson guiding us  we lead throughout the world,  For peace and trade our   banners are unfurled - unfurled.   Chorus:    March on with IBM  We lead the way, Onward we'll ever go,  In strong array; Our thousands to the fore, Nothing can stem,  Our march forevermore,	 With IBM.    March on with IBM  Work hand in hand, Stout hearted men go forth,  In every land; Our flags on every shore,  We march with them,  On high forevermore, For IBM.   To: THOMAS J. WATSON   Tune: "Auld Lang Syne"  % T.J. Watson - you're our leader fine,  the greatest in the land, $ We sing your praises from our hearts we're here to shake your hand. You're IBM's guiding star  throughout the hemispheres, ! No matter what the future brings,  we all will perservere.    You've made our IBM so great in every land supreme," Our service meets all needs of men and works just like a team. % You've brought us through to victory,  with leadership that's prime,  We'll always love and honor you  for the sake of Auld Lang Syne.    To: THOMAS J. WATSON  + Pack up your troubles - T.J. Watson's here!  And smile, smile, smile. He's the genius in our IBM He's the man worth while He's inspiring all the time, And very versatile - oh!$ He is our strong and able President! His smile's worth while.  ' "Great organizer and a friend so true,"  Say all we boys,& Ever he thinks of things to say and do To increase our joys.  He is building every day In his outstanding style - so ' Pack up your troubles Mr. Watson's here  And Smile - Smile - Smile   . To: F. W. NICHOL (VP and General Manager, IBM)  $ His cause IBM and for all of its men$ He is working and planning, we know;' His time without spare, and a knowledge  that's rare  Is making our company grow.  Yes, yes, we all know ! Mr. Nichol you're making us grow;  Your thoughts full of zeal which to you reveal  Ever help to keep us on the go.   # Wherever we are, be it near or afar & We will find he has given us with care) A mesage to all that has sounded the call $ For the will to go forward and dare. Yes, yes we all know! Mr. Nichol you're making us grow;  the lessons you teach  make us strive to e'er reach Our records and keep on the go.   - To: C.L. KIRK (Executive Vice-President, IBM)   % Tune: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"     Ever we praise our able leaders. And our progressive C.A. Kirk  is one of them. * He is endowed with the will to go forward.& He'll always work in the cause of IBM;% All of our people united applaud him, % As his success in our Company recall,  As we know that each one is solidly for him. ( Proud of the job he is doing for us all.  / To: J.L. BARTON (Plant Manager, Endicott Plant)    In Endicott we have a man, Whose thoughts will ever be,% To fill each need with greater speed,  Throughout our factory;   J.L. Barton, to IBM you're true; You'll ever go ahead we know And we are back of you.    IBM COUNTRY CLUB SONG 8 by Miss Viola M. Lee, Associate Member, IBM Country Club; (Sung to the tune of "Annie Lisle," the Cornell Alma Mater)    Verse:     'Twixt the Susquehanna River,  and the hills so green: ( Stands the Club House white and shining, Fairest ever seen.* Fields for sport and lawns for playgrounds Games when days are gray,   Many hours of healthful pleasure Found there day by day.    Chorus: " Thanks we give to our great leader And we sing with vim,  "Hail to Mr. T.J. Watson
 And the IBM."    HAIL TO THE IBM   # Lift up our proud and loyal voices, $ Sing out in accents strong and true,$ With hearts and hands to you devoted And inspiration ever new, % Your ties of friendship cannot sever,  Your glory time will never stem ' We will toast a name that lives forever  Hail to the IBM.   Our voices swell in admiration,  Of T.J. Watson proudly sing, He'll ever be our inspiration, To him our voices loudly ring. The IBM will sing the praises $ Of him who brought us world acclaim," As the volume of the chorus raises Hail! To his honored name.   EVER ONWARD    Verse:  ! There's a thrill in store for all  for we're about to toast" The corporation that we represent.! We're here to cheer each pioneer   and also proudly boast,  Of that man of men our sterling president The name of T.J. Watson means  a courage none can stem  And we feel honored to be  here to toast the IBM.   Chorus:    Ever Onward! Ever Onward! " That's the spirit that has brought us fame.  We're big but bigger we will be, We can't fail for all can see, that to serve humanity Has been our aim.  Our products now are known in every zone. Our reputation sparkles  like a gem.  We've fought our way through* And new fields we're sure to conquer, too, For the Ever Onward IBM!   Ever Onward! Ever Onward!  We're bound for the top  to never fall,! Right here and now we thankfullyt  Pledge sincerest loyalty To the corporation that's the best of all Our leaders we revere  and while we're here,  Let's show the world just what we think of them!  So let us sing men - Sing men  Once or twice, then sing again for the EVER ONWARD IBM!   ___________________   C Well, there you have it, whether you wanted it or not.  I love that D "We're here to cheer each pioneer;" that has to be the finest bit of: doggerel since "His buckskin shirt/all smeared with dirt."  E A note on sources: these lyrics were from the liner notes to a record D distributed by Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) Corporation at theD Western Joint Computer Conference circa 1960-62.  No explicit sourceF was quoted by ACT, but there were enough current and former IBMer's atD the conference that it was unlikely that they could have gotten awayF with a fake.  There was also a rumor that IBM complained (and in thoseB days, a complaint from IBM was a formidable thing) and ACT stoppedC handing the records out ... but then again they might have just run A out of stock.  I think this was also the Western Joint where Herb > Grosch said that "The missile race is the swan song of a dyingE civilization," and thereby became the only VP of IBM ever to be fired & twice.  Ah, those were heady times ...