Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikitext I Love You So

"Wikitext I Love You So" is a song for Parsoidistas about our favorite markup language. The song was first performed live by User:cscott at a late night karaoke session at the Wikimedia Developer Summit in January 2017.

Performed to the karaoke version of John Denver singing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Lyrics
[verse] i like parsing wikitext yeah! lots of templates and recursive tags to parse the code is old there older than tstarling younger than the jimbo growing like a weed

[chorus] wikitext i love you so all the ways you break the page (alt: you fill my days) (alt: folks write you wrong)

hacking parsers in the dark wikitext i love you so.

[verse] all my patches gather round me wish that i could get just one more review now php is rusty the manual's close by this here regexp's making teardrops in my eye

[chorus]

[bridge] i hear a voice in the morning hour it's calling me jenkins reminding me that +2's far away and driving down the road i start remembering that i should have run phpcs yesterday

[chorus, 2x]

[outro] wikitext you leave me vexed wikitext i wonder what's next