Never a Friday

by Daniel Kelly – 2024

     C   
It’s a Friday in the office,
                     G7
The clock has just struck two,
               G
You’ve been working on that code all week,
                     C
And want to see it through,
          C
You bypass pre-prod testing,
        F
After your first clean compile,
       G                G7
But a voice the in the back of your mind,
     G             C
Says wait a little while.

          F                       C
Never push to production on a Friday,
          G                C
No not a Friday, Never a Friday,
     F                       C
Never push to production on a Friday,
          G7   G         F   G     C
Unless you’re hoping, To Unleash Hell.

If your code will be soon be running,
On a million odd machines,
You better be sure that it works,
Cause that’s a lot of beans,

You might disrupt the airlines,
Or the AT Machines,
And you won’t have a job come Monday,
If it was your code caused the scene.

So if you’re a developer,
A cutter of the code,
Then never bypass pre-prod,
And test is under load,

When it comes to ones and zeros,
There’s edge cases galore,
And if you fail to spot them,
You’ll soon be shown the door,

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