Biography:
Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock / folk rock musician active since 2003 from Brooklyn, known for his songs about geek culture. He is best known for such compositions as "Still Alive" and "Code Monkey", as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures.
Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast
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Other songs:
- A Talk With George
- Alone At Home
- Artificial Heart
- Baby Got Back (acoustic Version)
- Baby Got Back Acoustic
- Betty And Me
- Big Bad World One
- Chiron Beta Prime
- Code Monkey
- Dissolve
- Down Today
- Drinking With You
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- First Of May
- Glasses
- Good Morning Tuscon
- I Crush Everything
- I'm Your Moon
- Ikea
- Mr. Fancy Pants
- My Monkey
- Nemeses
- Not About You
- One Christmas At A Time
- Portal - Still Alive - Valve (full)
- Re: Your Brains
- Shopvac
- Skullcrusher Mountain
- Soft Rocked By Me
- Still Alive
- Still Alive- Artificial Heart Version
- The Future Soon
- Tom Cruise Crazy
- When You Go
- You Ruined Everything
- Want You Gone
- A Laptop Like You
- All This Time
- Always The Moon
- Baby Got Back
- Ball And Chain
- Better
- Blue Sunny
- Blue Sunny Day
- Bozos Lament
- Brave
- Brookline
- Cave
- Christmas Is Interesting
- Creepy Doll
- Curl
- Dance Soterios Johnson Dance
- De
- Dont Talk To Strangers
- Flickr
- Fraud
- Furry Old Lobster
- Gamblers Prayer
- Good Morning Tucson
- I Feel Fantastic
- I Hate California
- I Will
- If The Earth Were A Sandwich
- Im Having A Party
- Im Your Moon
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Love Aint No Billy Goat
- Madelaine
- Mandelbrot Set
- Millionaire Girlfriend
- Mr Fancy Pants
- My Beige Bear
- Nemesese
- Nobody Loves You Like Me
- Nobodys Above The Law
- Now I Am An Arsonist
- Octopus
- Ordinary Man
- Over There
- Overhead
- Pizza Day
- Podsafe Christmas Song
- Popsci Podcast On The Moon
- Previously On Braindead
- Re Your Brains
- Red Shirt
- Screwed
- Shop Vac
- So Far So Good
- Solid State
- Someone Is Crazy
- Space Doggity
- Square Things
- Sticking It To Myself
- Sucker Punch
- The Big Boom
- The Presidents
- The Presidents Song
- The Princess Who Saved Herself
- The Town Crotch
- The World Belongs To You
- There You Are
- Today With Your Wife
- Todd The T1000
- Under The Pines
- You Could Be Her
- You Wouldnt Know
- Your Tattoo
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Sadly, I didn't figure this out, I found it at Jonathan Coulton's forum at
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=20&page=1
[Intro]
E (p.m.)
[Verse 1]
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey get up get coffee
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey go to job
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey have boring meeting
E (p.m.)
With boring manager Rob
E B/E A/E
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
E B/E A/E
But his output stink
E B/E A/E
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
E B/E A/E
What do Code Monkey think?
[Pre-Chorus]
N.C. A B7 G# C#m
Code Monkey think maybe manager wanna write god damned login page himself
B A
Code Monkey not say it out loud
B7
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud
[Chorus]
B7 E Emaj7
Code Monkey like Fritos
E6 E
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Amaj7sus2 Amaj7 Amaj7sus2
Code Monkey very simple man
Amaj7 B7
With big warm fuzzy secret heart:
B9
Code Monkey like you
[Fill 1]
E B/E A/E B/E
E B/E A/E
[Verse 2]
E B/E A/E
Code Monkey hang around at front desk
E B/E A/E
Tell you sweater look nice
E B/E A/E
Code Monkey offer buy you soda
E B/E A/E
Bring you cup, bring you ice
E B/E A/E
You say no thank you for the soda cause
E B/E A/E
Soda make you fat
E B/E A/E
Anyway you busy with the telephone
E B/E A/E
No time for chat
[Pre-Chorus]
Code Monkey have long walk back to cubicle, he sit down pretend to work
Code Monkey not thinking so straight
Code Monkey not feeling so great
[Chorus]
Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
With big warm fuzzy secret heart:
Code Monkey like you
[Fill 2]
D A Am E
E D A Am Am6 Am7
Code Monkey like you a lot
[Verse 3]
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey have every reason
E (p.m.)
To get out this place
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey just keep on working
E (p.m.)
See your soft pretty face
Much rather wake up, eat a coffee cake
Take bath, take nap
This job “fulfilling in creative way”
Such a load of crap
[Pre-Chorus]
Code Monkey think someday he have everything even pretty girl like you
Code Monkey just waiting for now
Code Monkey say someday, somehow
[Chorus]
Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
With big warm fuzzy secret heart:
Code Monkey like you
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=20&page=1
[Intro]
E (p.m.)
[Verse 1]
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey get up get coffee
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey go to job
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey have boring meeting
E (p.m.)
With boring manager Rob
E B/E A/E
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
E B/E A/E
But his output stink
E B/E A/E
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
E B/E A/E
What do Code Monkey think?
[Pre-Chorus]
N.C. A B7 G# C#m
Code Monkey think maybe manager wanna write god damned login page himself
B A
Code Monkey not say it out loud
B7
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud
[Chorus]
B7 E Emaj7
Code Monkey like Fritos
E6 E
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Amaj7sus2 Amaj7 Amaj7sus2
Code Monkey very simple man
Amaj7 B7
With big warm fuzzy secret heart:
B9
Code Monkey like you
[Fill 1]
E B/E A/E B/E
E B/E A/E
[Verse 2]
E B/E A/E
Code Monkey hang around at front desk
E B/E A/E
Tell you sweater look nice
E B/E A/E
Code Monkey offer buy you soda
E B/E A/E
Bring you cup, bring you ice
E B/E A/E
You say no thank you for the soda cause
E B/E A/E
Soda make you fat
E B/E A/E
Anyway you busy with the telephone
E B/E A/E
No time for chat
[Pre-Chorus]
Code Monkey have long walk back to cubicle, he sit down pretend to work
Code Monkey not thinking so straight
Code Monkey not feeling so great
[Chorus]
Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
With big warm fuzzy secret heart:
Code Monkey like you
[Fill 2]
D A Am E
E D A Am Am6 Am7
Code Monkey like you a lot
[Verse 3]
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey have every reason
E (p.m.)
To get out this place
E (p.m.)
Code Monkey just keep on working
E (p.m.)
See your soft pretty face
Much rather wake up, eat a coffee cake
Take bath, take nap
This job “fulfilling in creative way”
Such a load of crap
[Pre-Chorus]
Code Monkey think someday he have everything even pretty girl like you
Code Monkey just waiting for now
Code Monkey say someday, somehow
[Chorus]
Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
With big warm fuzzy secret heart:
Code Monkey like you
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