Just about a week ago,
I set out to download.
Seekin' supplementary data,
lookin' for a pot of gold.

Things got bad, and things got worse,
I guess you will know the tune.
Oh lord, stuck data mining again.

Rode in on semantics,
I'll be hand-waving out if I go.
Trying controlled vocabularies,
must've been seven of 'em or more.
No corresponding authors
have replied to my emails yet.
Oh lord, I'm stuck data mining again.

The man from Stack Overflow
said I was on my way.
My code kept raising exceptions.
I was reading tracebacks for days.
I wanted to run a one-off benchmark.
Looks like my plans fell through.
Oh lord, stuck data mining again.

If I only had metadata
that was machine-actionable
every time I've had a dataset
that I's told was interoperable.
You know I'd catch the FAIR train
and breeze through my planned reuse.
Oh lord, I'm stuck data mining again.
Oh lord, I'm stuck data mining again.