Nard Dog’s Story (Leonard Peikoff)

[verse]
A patient's life spared on the table by Sam, a surgeon quite able
"I'll head home, this cold Canadian night", Sam thought, "my son awaits, reading by candlelight"
At home the boy read all he had, learning the books to become smart like dad.
Young Leonard up late for a lad, scribbling notes on his pad, ready for college, his birthright.
U. Manitoba couldn't match his pace but NYU might, learning philosophy ancient but trite.
The Fountainhead in his hands, a shining new light.

[chorus]
Leonard and his remarkable brain, stopping dictators and expanding Ayn Rand's fame.
Top individualist in the game, influencing generations when he explains.

[verse]
Fast-forward, Leonard graduates NYU becoming a philosophy professor
Logic, reason, self-interest, and non-contradiction
Meeting 'market goddess' Ayn Rand overclocked his CPU the hottest,
Never modest, told Rand he wanted to partner, honest, his success her prediction.
Readers of her fiction learned philosophy from him without restriction.
Founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, curing the world's altruistic affliction.

[chorus]
Leonard and his remarkable brain, stopping dictators and expanding Ayn Rand's fame.
Top individualist in the game, influencing generations when he explains.

[verse]
Year after year her taught her name, "Keeping It Real" on the mic he reigned
From queendom an empire he forged, walls tall, castles, and even a mote,
Best-seller after best-seller, his greatest accomplishment three years too late to tell her.
The grammaticist and great speller fathered something stellar, and I quote:
"To this man here comes a propeller," a blue-eyed daughter of note.
For Kira, his princess, the world held its breath to see what she wrote.

[chorus]
Leonard and his remarkable brain, stopping dictators and expanding Ayn Rand's fame.
Top individualist in the game, influencing generations when he explains.