Your Data Don't Match....

Inspriration to write has finally come again from one of Jim's fabulous rock-n-roll themed posts: The Data Rock Stars:  The Rolling Forecasts.  If you are on Twitter, and care about data, you MUST follow these fabulous guys and gals...

First we had Rush -- and my response with Styx -- and now Jim channels the Rolling Stones.  OK... I like the 'classic rock' formula as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pay homage to the boys in Poison -- and yes, before you say it, I know that Loggins and Messina did it first.  And yes, that is a great version as well.  But today I was driving in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, sun streaming down, and had this 1989 cover cranked up -- and yet I still couldn't get Jim's blog out of my head...  (I know -- wierd...)

SO:  I give you "Your Data Don't Match..." in the style of Poison's "Your Mama Don't Dance..."

Hope you like it!
Berry
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YOUR DATA DON'T MATCH AND MGMT SEZ "Heads will roll!" *

Chorus:

Your data don’t match and management sez “Heads will roll!”
Your data don’t match and your weekend is screwed, AGAIN!
But when the weekend comes around and it’s time to buy a round
Where do you go – you got to doc it!

The BRD’s are bad and the analysts don’t comprehend…
But if you don’t deliver something soon your career could soon be at an end
You know there’s no excuse, you have to document, you gotta bend
And diagram again…

And it’s all because

CHORUS

Everyone gather round the table let me get your sign-off with this pen…
You see I need to make sure we all agree on the data lineage from A to Z.
We just have to get the VP to release the funds for the vendors that number over ten…
We’re just about to move thinkin’ “Berry, this is a breeze”
There’s an email coming in and a guy says “Three C.Rs., that’s fair!”

Oowee – “you’re making me scream!”
Said the poor P.M.

CHORUS

Play me a little C.C.

SOLO

Your data don’t match, no
It just won’t match, no
Your data don’t match and your weekend is screwed again…
Ah. Yeah.

Songwriters: Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina
Released in 1989 by Poison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3l0IBTN1J8