Ellen Foley covers the Pogues @ college commencement

Wisconsin State Journal editor and proto blogger Ellen Foley pulled out all the digital stops to capture her recent commencement address at UW-Richland:

And I'll offer you one bit of final wisdom that is the secret to success.... To help you remember this, I'm going to use one of those multimedia tools that you are so crazy about. I'm going to sing a song for you. A singing editor. This should be memorable.

Such moxie! Check the advice she crooned--lyrics below.

Seen the carnival at Rome
Had the women I had the booze
All I can remember now
Is little kids without no shoes
So I saw that train
And I got on it
With a heartful of hate
And a lust for vomit
Now I'm walking on the sunnyside of the street

Stepped over bodies in Bombay
Tried to make it to the U.S.A.
Ended up in Nepal
Up on the roof with nothing at all
And I knew that day
I was going to stay
Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the street

Been in a palace, been in a jail
I just don't want to be reborn a snail
Just want to spend eternity
Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the street

As my mother wept it was then I swore
To take my life as I would a whore
I know I'm better than before
I will not be reconstructed
Just wanna stay right here
On the sunnyside of the street

• Original State Journal slide show.
• The Pogues, "The Sunny Side of the Street" [mp3, zshare-d]