The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100597   Message #2020970
Posted By: Joe_F
09-Apr-07 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pistol Packin' Mama (Al Dexter)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pistol Packing Mama
When Linus Pauling got his first Nobel Prize, somebody at Caltech (probably Kent Clark) wrote him a song:

Digging rocks in the chandelier,
And was I having fun!
Then one night, I got it right --
Now Stockholm, here I come.

Lay them crystals down, man,
Lay them crystals down.
Crystal-crackin' papa,
Lay them crystals down.

I measured all the bond lengths.
The contacts all looked swell.
The H bond's straight (now ain't that great?) --
It filled the unit cell.