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<h2>GNU
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<p>This is a collection of music and songs for the amusement of all hackers.</p>

<ul>
  <li>Read the <a href="/music/free-software-song.html">lyrics, score, /></a></div>

<h3>Lyrics and
    source code</a> of the Free Software Song.</li>
  <li>Hear the Song <a href="/music/free-software-song.au">sung</a> by <a
    href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a> himself. (If you are
    not used to a meter of 7/8, you may perceive it as inability to keep
  time.)</li>
  <li>Hear the Song <a href="/music/FreeSWSong.ogg">performed</a> in a good
    Bulgarian style.</li>
  <li>Hear Katie Herzog <a href="/music/free-software-song-herzog.ogg">perform</a> 
    the performance</h3>
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  <li><a href="/music/free-software-song.html">The Free Software Song, released under <a
    href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">CC BY-NC-ND</a>.</li>
  <li>The <a href="/music/free-birthday-song.html"> Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="/music/free-birthday-song.html">The Free Birthday Song</a>, written and performed by Steven Sheffey.</li> Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.html">God Wrote in Lisp Code</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://infinite-hands.draketo.de">Infinite Hands</a></li>
  <li><a href="/music/gnu-is-not-unix-song.html">GNU's Not Unix (v1.2)</a></li>
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<h3>Lyrics only</h3>
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  <li><a href="/music/free-firmware-song.html">The Free Firmware Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gnu-song.html">The GNU Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="/music/till_there_was_gnu.html">'Till There Was GNU</a> </li>
  <li>The <a href="/music/blues-song.html">Programmer's Blues</a> song!</li>
  <li><a href="/music/whole-gnu-world.html">A Whole GNU World</a>
    by Daniel Vukelich</li> World</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/only-gnu.html">Only GNU</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/lauper.html">Gnus Just Wanna Have Fun</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/welcome-to-gnu-emacs.html">The GNU Emacs Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="/music/gdb-song.html">The GDB Song</a>!</li> Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="/music/emacsvsvi.html">Emacs vs Vi</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/vi.song.html">Addicted to vi</a>.</li> Vi</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/welcome-to-gnu-emacs.html">GNU Emacs Song</a>.</li> href="/fun/jokes/vim-songs.html">Vim, Send Me an Angel!</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gnu-song.html">The GNU Song</a></li> href="/fun/jokes/hap-bash.html">Happiness Is a Bash Prompt</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/musical-pickup.html">Musical pick-up!</a></li> href="/fun/jokes/hackforfreedom.html">Hack for Freedom</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.ogg">"God wrote in Lisp code"</a> (See
    also the <a href="/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.html">lyrics</a>.)</li> href="/music/blues-song.html">The Programmer's Blues</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/hackersong.html">If the Beatles were Hackers…</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/nobody-owns.html">Nobody owns this song</a></li> hackers…</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/wonderful-code.html">What a Wonderful Code</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/vim-songs.html">VIM Songs</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/hap-bash.html">Happiness is a bash prompt</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/hackforfreedom.html">Hack for Freedom href="/fun/jokes/nobody-owns.html">Nobody Owns This Song</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://infinite-hands.draketo.de">Infinite Hands</a></li>
  <li><a href="/music/emacsvsvi.html">Emacs vs VI</a></li> href="/fun/jokes/filks.html">Some filks</a></li>
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    alt="Happiness is a bash prompt" /></a></p>
  <p class="caption">Happiness
    alt="Photo of Richard Stallman on the Dinnertime Sampler show" /></a>
  <p>Happiness is a bash Bash prompt</p>
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<p>You can also listen to Richard Stallman's appearances on the <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/">Dinnertime
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180822053320/http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/">
Dinnertime Sampler</a> show on <a
href="http://www.wmbr.org/">WMBR</a>, the MIT Campus Radio Station. In these
shows, Richard shares some examples of his electric eclectic musical tastes with you,
the listener.</p>

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  <li><a href="http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/stallman.html">March href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171108234846/http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/stallman.html">March
    23<sup>rd</sup> 2005</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/040324.html">March href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925153007/http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/040324.html">March 24<sup>th</sup>
    2004</a></li>
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