With apologies to Katy Perry. The University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Band at the annual CSE pit party, 9/27/08. This version of the UW CSE Band consists of Alex Colburn, Laura Effinger-Dean, Andrew Guillory, Natalie Linnell, Kristi Morton, and Pradeep Shenoy.

Lyrics:
vi is what I used to plan
All my inventions
Escape colon q stretch out my hand
Start a new bash session
It's not what I'm used to
Just want to try you on
I'm curious for gnu
Closed my vi session

I tried emacs and I liked it
The feel of the alt-control-shift
I tried emacs just to try it
Hope vim.org don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
I love the syntax highlight
I tried emacs and I liked it
I liked it

Knowing how to copy would be nice
It doesn't matter
I'll just cut and paste it twice
Less to remember
I'm told it's an os
built into itself
Control x-control s
Me from myself

chorus

This editor's programmable
E-lisp macros so flexible
Hard to resist so codable
Too good to deny it
Need a doctor it's built iiiin

chorus (less info)