3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"
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4:00 minutes (MP3 7.5MB) (OGG 3.3MB)

 

Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to face some pretty crazy challenges. 
This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our request for documentation about their UltraSPARC III processors. We want documentation, because these are the fastest processors with a per-page eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support our new W^X security feature. In the meantime, the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit mode.

And it is going to be faster...
	Deep through the mists of time
Gaze to the crystal ball
Back to the age of darkness
Black was the protocol


A King ruled the web with fear
Spilling the blood of men
Then from the ocean came
Puff the Barbarian


Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet
Sold into slav-er-y by the man
Eating the weeds till he was strong enough
Breaking his bonds like nobody can


Down the sewer pipes of Hell
A thousand kitties then did bleed
Constraints were slain as well
Hacked his way out to the C


And there he found
His destiny
Hammer of the Ocean God
"Xor taking care of me"


Then in a dream Xor requested he
"Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn
Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C
Knowledge - so they may never return"


At the tower Puff appealed
For the wisdom of the One
Denied, his mind did reel
Puff was getting tired of Sun


Broke down the guard
Cause math is hard
Saw McNealy on his throne
All alone and only bones


Come the Sun King blade ablur
Hammer down eclipse the Sun
And Puff, the land secured
The new King Barbarian!


	

Written and arranged by Ty Semaka. Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis. 
Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox, drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.