By Kardach & Allen (play to the Kansas City Blues)
This song was writting for the Bluetooth SIG member event in 1999 in LA. It was original performed at the LA House of Blues, where the SIG was celebrating publishing the 1.0 specification by the the original SIG promoter companies (Intel, Ericsson, Nokia, IBM and toshiba) and SIG members, AND the joining of Lucent, Microsoft and 3COM to the SIGs promoter group. The Bluetooth Blues was also performed at a SIG planning event which took place in Jukkas Jarvi Sweden (at the famed Ice Hotel) featuring Warran Allan on Harmonica (one of the authors of the Bluetooth blues) and at the Bluetooth 20th reunion in Tjärö island Sweden featuring Jim Kardach and Simon Ellis.
I got the Bluetooth Blues, you know I’m working’ round the clock
I got the Bluetooth Blues, just trying to get these things to talk
King Harald won’t you help me, won’t you climb down off that rock
Well I woke up this morning’, there was promoters in my bed
Yeah I work up this morning’, Promoters crawling’ in my bed
Well there used to be five, now there’s nine ... man I wish I was dead!
I got the Bluetooth Blues, you know its something’ bout the spec
I got the Bluetooth Blues, it’s making’ me a wreck,
they’re saying 1.0 ain’t enough, we gotta stack more cards in that deck!
I have all of these cables now, and none of them do the trick
I have tons of cables baby, and none of them seem to fit
But with some RF waves, I can forget about all that shit
Chorus 1:
Well I might take a train
I might take a plane
But this interoperability is driven me insane!
I got the Bluetooth Blues, just trying to get these things to talk
King Harald won’t you help me, won’t you climb down off that rock
Well we got a new contract, it only took about nine months
Yeah we got a shiny new contract, you only have to sign it once
But don’t forget to sign it, or someone might eat your lunch
We’ve got Ericsson and Nokia, and Motorola makes three
They rule the world of mobile phones, indisputably
Then there’s IBM and Toshiba, monsters of the mobile PC
They all seem to get along, I’m not sure how that can be
We’ve got 3COM and Luncent, huge in TCP/IP
You know their hip to Ethernet, even 802.11B
Chorus 2:
We’ve got Intel writing software,
Their new field of expertise
They’re gonna suck a core in to the Pentium III
I got the Bluetooth Blues, just trying to get these things to talk
King Harald won’t you help me, won’t you climb down off that rock
We finally pulled in Microsoft, fresh from the DOJ
We had to start using Windows, to get them to say OK!
But now we can’t say “Founders” or Microsoft ain’t gonna play!
I got the Bluetooth Blues, you know I’m working’ round the clock
I got the Bluetooth Blues, just trying to get these things to talk
King Harald won’t you help me, won’t you climb down off that rock