Song: Go Like Vladimir

Go Like Vladimir
Lyrics by patoadam, October 2009. Placed in the public domain.
TTTO Johnny B. Goode

"I found it and I named it, being versed
in taxonomic Latin, thus became
godfather to an insect, and its first
describer -- and I want no other fame...

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss,
poems that take a thousand years to die,
but ape the immortality of this
red label on a little butterfly."
-- Vladimir Nabokov, "A Discovery" (1943)

   A
At Harvard and Cornell, there was great intrigue,
   A
As students tried to get into the Ivy League.
     D
A lucky few took classes from this clever prof,
  A
A Russian guy named Vladimir Nabokov.
    E
You know he wrote "Lolita" but that wasn't enough.
   A
He did a lot of other really gnarly stuff.

Chorus:
            A
	Go, go! Go like Vladimir, go! 
                          D
	Go like Vladimir, go!
                          A
	Go like Vladimir, go!
                          E
	Go like Vladimir, go!
                        A
	You're gonna be good!

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