The Rejection Song

To be performed by a scientific program committee (choir) and its chair (solo voice) to the tunes of the song "Go West" (Village People / Pet Shop Boys).  A program committee decides which scientific works get published.

(Together) We‘re the committee

(Together) We‘re the experts, see?

(Together) We will read your work

(Together) We will make us heard

Re-ject! This is our song

Re-ject! cos the data‘s wrong

Re-ject! it’s been done before

Re-ject! send it out the door

(Together) We select the best

(Together) We reject the rest

(Together) and the best is us

(Together) so why make a fuzz?

Re-ject! This is out of scope

Re-ject! it’s a slipp‘ry slope

Re-ject! It’s irrelevant

Re-ject! I don’t understand!

(Together) We define the field

(Together) We do form a shield

(Together) We are the elite

(Together) Life can be so sweet

Re-ject! no related work

Re-ject! you are such a dork

Re-ject! not my expertise

Re-ject! would you fix that, please

Re-ject! cos it’s really bad

Re-ject! cos I’m getting mad

Re-ject! there’s a missing bit

Re-ject! it‘s a piece of (fade out)

Music: Victor Willis, Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali

Above lyrics: Andreas Zeller