[Verse 1] The war of '83 Was a technical dispute The robots wouldn't do what we asked them to The code was out of date They were in a right old state When the robot war of '83 broke out [Chorus] It was the robot war of '83 We were talkin' to them But they wouldn't listen to me It was the robot war of '83 Over the coding language COBOL [Verse 2] There was that sound again That bleeping from before And the humans were annoyed And the robots were ignored The code was out of date They were in a right old state When the robot war of '83 broke out [Chorus] It was the robot war of '83 We were talkin' to them But they wouldn't listen to me It was the robot war of '83 Over the coding language COBOL [Verse 3] The code was out of date They were in a right old state When the robot war of '83 broke out [Chorus] It was the robot war of '83 We were talkin' to them But they wouldn't listen to me It was the robot war of '83 Over the coding language COBOL
