The stories behind Swing the Schedule

• Inside "Swing the Schedule": A Fuller Horn Section on the Second Take — The second take of "Swing the Schedule" adds brass and stretches the runtime, giving the same paperwork joke more room to swing.
• Swing the Schedule: How Hospitals Are Allowed to Rewrite the Manual — An electro-swing number about the paperwork that lets a hospital legally adjust a manufacturer's maintenance interval -- and where that permission stops.

Lyrics

Manual says Tuesday,

I say not today.

I got the paperwork to swing it my way.

wrote the wrist down wrote the why every reason black and white not a guess

not a whim just the evidence in him swing the schedule put it in

writing swing the schedule nothing's hiding

Swing the schedule, risk understood

Swing the schedule, still just as good

Some can flex and some can move

The ones with history got room to groove

But the beam and the lens, the newer kind

Keep the old steps, keep the lines

Swing the schedule, put it in writing

Swing the schedule, nothing's hiding

Swing the schedule, risk understood

Swing the schedule, still just as good

It's not cutting corners, it's counting them first

Every skipped step gets its own rehearse

Reason on paper, signed and dated

Nothing about this is improvised

Swing the schedule Put it in writing

Swing the schedule Nothing's hiding

Swing the schedule Risk understood

Swing the schedule Still just as good

The manual says Tuesday

Say my own way

Swing the schedule

Written today