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On Shannon Day
We say 'what the hey
Let's have some intelligent fun!'
We invent a machine
Making life less serene
And shoot frisbees at the sun

Reading your mind while pogoing around
In shoes made for walking water, not ground
All of us who have backsides and feet
In his honour are walking the street

We pass a single bit down the line —

On Shannon Day
We say 'what the hey
Let's have some intelligent fun!'
We invent a machine
Making life less serene
And shoot frisbees at the sun

Unicycling through office corridors
Deftly avoiding all obstructing doors
While juggling ideas and three or four balls
Keeping people on their toes in the halls

but the channel adds its hiss, and it comes out wrong;

On Shannon Day
We say 'what the hey
Let's have some intelligent fun!'
We invent a machine
Making life less serene
And shoot frisbees at the sun

Threading the branch of a tree in mem'ry
The rodent's hidden guiding circuitry
That made the game of chess larger-than-life
Got the mouse out the maze though not alive

So we we code it Shannon's way, with a little more to to spare,

On Shannon Day
We say 'what the hey
Let's have some intelligent fun!'
We invent a machine
Making life less serene
And shoot frisbees at the sun

Never one to want to blow his own horn
Made one special for his son, showman born
Throwing flames, it struck the front row blind
It burned not half as bright as his own mind

And the message lives to reach the far end of the air

On Shannon Day
We say 'what the hey

And when the day is done,
Every hand reaches out to the switch on the box —
And it shuts the whole thing down.