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Thread #85394 Message #1581838
Posted By: Stewart
12-Oct-05 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: Songs and parodies about science
Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science
Hi Fred, I have a copy the "The Biochemists' Songbook" by Harold Baum. This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I used to teach these songs to my biochemistry students when I used to be a College Prof., before I became an "unemployed musician" (by choice, now that I can afford it!). These songs were written by a U. of London biochem prof. "whilst travelling upstairs on the No. 22 bus between Putney Bridge and Manresa Road" for his Departmental Christmas Party. Most of them describe metabolic pathways such as...
"Battle Hymn of the Aerobes"
Mine eyes have seen the glory of respiratory chains
In every mitochondrion, intrinsic to membranes
Functionally organized in complex sub-domains
Where electrons flow along.
Glory, glory, respiration! 3X
Where electrons flow along.
(plus 7 more verses)
Or "Fatty Acid Biosynthesis" (tune: "Men of Harlech")
If you gobble tagliatelli
Chicken soup with bermicelli
You'll acquire a sagging belly
What's the use of that?
Guzzling beer till soporific
Possibly you'll feel terrific
But you'll end up fat.
Fat against starvation; fat for insulation;
If you sit hard you'll bounce on lard
Which substitutes in females for inflation.
Fat provides when you are needing
Glucogenic when you're seeding
Product of excessive feeding
Hail adipocyte! (plus 5 more verses)
They're all biochemically correct, but probably for a limited audience. You're welcome to borrow my copy. I also have buried away somewhere a whole file on chemistry- and biology- related songs and parodies.
Cheers, S. in Seattle