Written by Steve Bergen back one year after Y2K (2001)

Performed by Rachel Nance and Bobby Lasher

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rube n. slang. an unsophisticated countryman; hick
1. having a fantastically complicated improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes
2. deviously complex and impractical: a Rube Goldberg scheme for reducing taxes

Dedicated to Joe Cazeault (Director of Physical Plant at Noble & Greenough School in Dedham MA) who first commented to me that what I wanted to do in one of the hub rooms was a real rube job!

Click here or on the thumbnail below for an example of a rube job. In the picture, the fence at my house in Lexington MA was going to fall down but it is being held up by the cable that is secured to a hook buried deep in the ground underneath the plant. The plant exists only to make it appear that the vines to the fence are growing. They are not even live vines ;-)

(intro G D7 D7 G )

Hey rube, it don't look half bad (F C)

But if we try this, it might work better (C7 F)

Remember it's not about the look

Don't do it by the book. We might make it better.

Hey rube, it don't look half bad

But if we try this, it might work better

Remember, plan B is not a sin

Then you begin to make it better (better, better, better)

Hey rube, remember Charles Vest

Every problem has a solution

Go out, go find it and go do it

Any rube can execute it. And start a revolution.

If you can handle it, more of my songs can be found by clicking here. Steve Bergen