Kevin Ahern's Wildly Popular Metabolic & Miscellanic Melodies, Verses and Limericks

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I write the Metabolic Melodies and Verses for the BB100, BB 350, BB 450/550 and BB 451/551 classes I teach at Oregon State University. You can download full recordings of my songs for free here. If you'd like to watch my lectures featuring these songs, you can select from collections of them HERE, HERE, and HERE. Some recent press the Metabolic Melodies have gotten is HERE and HERE. Note - If you're looking for other DaVinci Press offerings, you'll find them HERE.

Check out my new video - "She's Staying Home" HERE and the 2015 Metabolic Melodies Calendar HERE

"Biochemistry Free and Easy"is a textbook for the iPad co-written with my wife, Indira Rajagopal. It is a free download HERE. A free PDF version for other systems is also available there and a Kindle version is available HERE. An ecampus course for credit I teach that uses the book can be seen HERE and registered for HERE. The book is also used by two FREE iTunes U courses I've created HERE and HERE

"Kevin and Indira's Guide to Getting Into Medical School" is a book I co-wrote with Indira. Free electronic versions (iPAD and PDF) are available HERE or in print HERE. A free iTunes U course based on it is available HERE.

The Merry Metabolic & Miscellanic Melodies book is now available AND for the first time ever, it includes a FREE VERSION. This is the complete compilation of ALL OF THE METABOLIC MELODIES LYRICS in one format. The free version is a PDF and you can get it HERE. The print version, which I hope you will support with your $, is available at Amazon, Barnes/Noble, and Lulu and the Kindle version is available HERE. Please like our Facebook page HERE

A Limerick a Day For a Third Year has been released and is now available on Lulu, Amazon, and Barnes/Noble. The two previous years of Limerick a Day are available HERE and HERE. A semi-compilation of these is contained in Kevin Ahern's 1001 Punniest Limericks and it is available in print at Amazon, Barnes/Noble, and Lulu and electronically for Kindle and iBooks. You can also access our new Facebook page HERE (please like us). For more info on the limerick books, click HERE and HERE.

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ALL of the Metabolic Melodies (Biochemistry and Non-Biochemistry) follow below.

Latest / Greatest Lyrics

1. The Thin You, The Fat You ("Within You, Without You") - Lyrics
2. Silent Spring ("Silent Night") - Lyrics
3. Mismatch Site ("Silent Night") - Lyrics
4. Gaia ("If I Had a Hammer") - Lyrics
5. A Hardees Night ("A Hard Day's Night") - Lyrics
6. Medical Marijuana ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics
7. Megan and Ryan's Wedding Song ("Greensleeves") - Lyrics / MP3 / Wedding Video
8. OSU Crane Song ("It Never Rains in Southern California") - Lyrics
9. Blueberry Fields Forever ("Strawberry Fields Forever") - Lyrics

Biochemistry/Science Songs

Metabolism

1. Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
2. Photosynthesis is Divine ("Scarborough Fair") - Lyrics / MP3
3. They Call the Stuff Urea ("They Call the Wind Mariah") - Lyrics / MP3
4. To Make a Cholesterol ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
5. The Citric Acid Cycle ("When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") - Lyrics / MP3
6. The Sound of Glucose ("A Few of My Favorite Things") - Lyrics / MP3

Structure/Function

1. Enzymes ("Downtown") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Hemoglobin's Movin' Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
3. The Three R's of DNA ("Dream a Little Dream of Me") - Lyrics / MP3
4. The Amino Alphabet Song ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Ode to Bicarbonate ("Song Sung Blue") - Lyrics / MP3
6. (The) Bloody Things ("Coke® It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics / MP3
7. The Way They Work ("The Way We Were") - Lyrics / MP3
8. Chromatin ("Sunshine on My Shoulders") - Lyrics / MP3
9. God Bless These Complexes ("God Bless America") - Lyrics / MP3
10. Deoxynucleotides ("Ticket to Ride") - Lyrics
11. B-DNA ("YMCA") - Lyrics / MP3
12. Hark the Sucrose ("Hark the Herald") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
13. The Codon Song ("When I'm 64") - Lyrics / MP3
14. Histones ("The Flintstones") - Lyrics / MP3
15. Hyaluronic Acid ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
16. N-A-D ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics / MP3
17. The Ribosome ("America the Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
18. Structural Lullaby ("Brahms Lullaby") - Lyrics / MP3
19. Prostaglandins! ("Oklahoma!") - Lyrics / MP3
20. Major Groovy ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
21. Oh Little Protein Molecule ("Oh Little Town of Bethlehem") - Lyrics / MP3

Processes

1. Central Dogma Zen ("Those Were the Days, My Friend" - co-written with Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
2. Thank Goodness My Blood is Clotting ("Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Catalyze ("Close to You") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Translation ("Maria" from West Side Story) - Lyrics / MP3
5. The Vision Thing ("The Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics / MP3
6. The Restriction Enzyme Song ("Chim Chim Cher-ee") - Lyrics
7. Transcription ("Frosty the Snowman") - Lyrics / MP3
8. My Old Enzymes ("Auld Lang Syne") - Lyrics / MP3
9. The Tao of Hormones ("The Sound of Silence") - Lyrics / MP3
10. I've Just Run a Gel ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
11. Protein Wonderland ("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics
12. The New Serine Protease Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
13. The Book of Life ("The Look of Love") - Lyrics / MP3
14. I Wanna Hold Your Strands ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics
15. Good Protein Synthesis ("Good King Wenceslaus") - Lyrics / MP3
16. Serine Protease Song ("Blackbird") - Lyrics / MP3
17. When Acids Are Synthesized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
18. When Acids Get Oxidized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
19. Glucagon is Coming Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3
20. Mismatch Site ("Silent Night") - Lyrics
21. Fatty Acids in Our Cells ("Halls of Montezuma") - Lyrics / MP3
22. God Rest Ye Merry Dieters ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") - Lyrics / MP3

Energy

1. In My Liver ("And I Love Her") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Oh Delta Gee ("Oh Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
3. En-er-gy ("Let It Be") - Lyrics / MP3
4. The Muscle Energy Song ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
5. The Cell's Lament ("Yesterday") - Lyrics / MP3
6. We All Need Just a Little ATP ("Yellow Submarine") - Lyrics / MP3
7. I'm a Little Mitochondrion ("I'm A Lumberjack") - Lyrics / MP3

Metabolic Verses

1. Credit Where Credit's Due HERE
2. Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes HERE
3. The Citric Acid Cycle HERE
4. The Glyoxylate Cycle HERE
5. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway HERE
6. Enzyme Inhibitors HERE
7. Fatty Acid Oxidation HERE
8. Fatty Acid Synthesis HERE

Student Experiences

1. Biochemistry Pie ("American Pie") - Lyrics / MP3
2. My 'A' ("My Way") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Distance Ed ("Mister Ed") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Evolution ("Revolution") - Lyrics
5. BB Wonderland ("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Student Nightmares ("Norwegian Wood") - Lyrics / MP3
7. Mellow Woes of Testing ("Yellow Rose of Texas") - Lyrics / MP3
8. This Song's For BB Three Five Oh ("This Land is Your Land") - Lyrics / MP3
9. Anthem for BB 350 ("She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain") - Lyrics / MP3
10. Thank God There's a Video ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
11. Biochem is Beautiful ("Everything is Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3
12. BB You're the Sh*ts ("Green Acres") - Lyrics / MP3
13. I Studied So Hard Last Night ("I Saw Her Again Last Night") - Lyrics
14. I Should Have Studied Harder ("I Should Have Known Better") - Lyrics
15. Oh Daddy Dear ("Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
16. Things You Should Remember ("In My Life") - Lyrics / MP3
17. Biochemistry, Biochemistry ("Oh Christmas Tree") - Lyrics / MP3
18. A Course With No Aim ("A Horse With No Name") - Lyrics
19. National Merit Scholars ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics
20. Online Movie ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
21. The Bad Instructor Anthem ("Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics
22. Just Go Do It ("I Am Woman") - Lyrics
23. The End of the Term ("The End of the World") - Lyrics
24. Students Rejoice ("Joy to the World") - Lyrics

Health

1. I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
2. At Dairy Queen ("At Seventeen") - Lyrics
3. Your Poor Veins ("You're So Vain") - Lyrics / MP3
4. It's a Toothache Baby ("It's Too Late") Lyrics / MP3
5. Dieter's Song ("Story of Love") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Heavin' on a Jet Plane ("Leavin' On a Jet Plane") - Lyrics
7. New Pain Reliever ("Daydream Believer") - Lyrics
8. I'll Be Thin at Christmas ("I'll Be Home For Christmas") - Lyrics / MP3
9. The Ointment Song ("My Valentine") - Lyrics / MP3
10. Kidney Stone ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") - Lyrics
11. Don't Get the Bends ("You've Got a Friend") - Lyrics / MP3
12. Medical Marijuana ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics
13. Viagra ("Maria") - Lyrics / MP3
14. Prostate ("YMCA") - Lyrics
15. (Give Us) Real Things ("(Coke) It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics/ MP3
16. I Caught Your Cold ("I Got You Babe") - Lyrics
17. The Weight I Gained Last Week ("The Way You Look Tonight") - Lyrics / MP3
18. The Thin You, The Fat You ("Within You, Without You") - Lyrics
19. You've Gotta Lose That Gut ("You're Gonna Lose That Girl") - Lyrics
20. My Sweet Tooth ("My Sweet Lord") - Lyrics
21. Health Care Is Coming ("Morning Has Broken") - Lyrics
22. The Colonoscopy Song ("Oh Christmas Tree") - Lyrics
23. I'm Ill ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
24. The Vegetarian Song ("Blowin' in the Wind") - Lyrics / MP3

General Science

1. Elemental Learning ("Sentimental Journey") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Around the Nucleus ("Across the Universe") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
3. Under the Ocean ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Henderson Hasselbalch("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Avogadro's Number is a Huge One ("Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Transposon ("Delta Dawn") - Lyrics
7. Complementary Bases ("California Dreamin'") - Lyrics
8. Tidal Pool Song ("Jingle Bells" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
9. Fishy Tales ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics
10. Swimmin' Round in Puget Sound ("Yellow Submarine") - Lyrics / MP3
11. His Hair is Everywhere ("Here, There, and Everywhere") - Lyrics
12. The E. coli Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
13. Brain Farts Just Happen In My Head ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head") - Lyrics / MP3
14. If You're Molecular and Know It, Clap Your Hands ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands") - Lyrics / MP3
15. The Battle Hymn of Biochemistry ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
16. This Biochemistry ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics

Non-Science Songs

Social Commentary

1. Tweet ("Smile") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Trader Joe's Tonight ("Strangers in the Night") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Gaia ("If I Had a Hammer") - Lyrics
4. Sheik to Sheik ("Cheek to Cheek") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
5. A Gay is No Danger ("Away in a Manger") - Lyrics/ MP3
6. The Sad Story of Thad ("Theme Song from The Beverly Hillbillies") - Lyrics
7. A Loan Again, Naturally ("Alone Again, Naturally") - Lyrics
8. With a Little Hemp From My Friends ("With a Little Help From My Friends") - Lyrics / MP3
9. An Inequality ("My Very Good Friend") - Lyrics
10. Silent Spring ("Silent Night") - Lyrics
11. If You Drive a Monster Car ("When You Wish Upon a Star") - Lyrics
12. She's Staying Home ("She's Leaving Home") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
13. I Gotta Go Without Facebook ("I Couldn't Live Without Your Love") - Lyrics
14. They Are Watching You ("Every Breath You Take") - Lyrics
15. Sub-Prime Loan ("Take Me Home, Country Roads) - Lyrics
16. White Christmas ("White Christmas") - Lyrics
17. Happy Days Are Here For All ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics
18. Dumb Baby Names ("Sweet Baby James") - Lyrics
19. Turn Off That Damn Cell Phone ("The Long and Winding Road") - Lyrics / MP3
20. I've Just Changed My Face ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
21. Porn Free ("Born Free") - Lyrics
22. The Walgreens Song ("If I Fell") - Lyrics / MP3
23. All My Junk Mail ("All My Loving") - Lyrics
24. Money Guy ("Honey Pie") - Lyrics
25. A Hardees Night ("A Hard Day's Night") - Lyrics
26. When Ole Mitt Was Running Bain ("If I Only Had a Brain") - Lyrics
27. The Second Romney Song ("Drive My Car") - Lyrics
28. We're Screwing the World ("Hello Little Girl") - Lyrics
29. Pay Per View ("Paper Moon") - Lyrics / MP3
30. All We Need Are Votes ("All You Need is Love") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
31. Paperless Writer ("Paperback Writer") - Lyrics
32. Mother Nature's Done ("Mother Nature's Son") - Lyrics
33. Gay Waiter ("Day Tripper") - Lyrics
34. Ring Tones ("Meet the Flintstones") - Lyrics
35. Wakin' Up is Hard to Do ("Breakin' Up is Hard to Do") - Lyrics / MP3
36. She Likes You ("She Loves You") - Lyrics
    
37. Can't Buy Enough ("Can't Buy Me Love") - Lyrics
38. They Pillaged the Financial Markets ("She Came in Through the Bathroom Window") - Lyrics
39. I'm at the Wal-Mart ("I Am the Walrus") - Lyrics
40. You Never Gave Me a Login ("You Never Give Me Your Money") - Lyrics
41. Maybe I'll Sue ("Baby It's You") - Lyrics

Life In Oregon

1. At the Coast, Oregon's Fine All the Year ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
3. VooDoo ("My Guy") - Lyrics
4. Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
5. Hood River ("Moon River") - Lyrics
6. Blueberry Fields Forever ("Strawberry Fields Forever") - Lyrics
7. Crappy Days Are Here Again ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics / MP3
8. Make It Stop ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3
9. OSU Crane Song ("It Never Rains in Southern California") - Lyrics
10. The Crappiest Weather ("Happy Together") - Lyrics
11. Getting Wetter Every Day ("Getting Better All the Time") - Lyrics
12. Oregon City Song ("Desperado") - Lyrics / MP3
13. Month of Rain ("King of Pain") - Lyrics
14. Where is the Sunshine? ("You Are My Sunshine") - Lyrics

Miscellany

1. What'll I Chew? (The Puppy Song) ("What'll I Chew?") - Lyrics
2. Tari & Ian's Wedding Toast ("Vincent - Starry, Starry Night") - Lyrics
3. Composting Song ("Dixie") - Lyrics/ MP3
4. Megan and Ryan's Wedding Song ("Greensleeves") - Lyrics / MP3 / Wedding Video
5. The Ballad of Andy Karplus ("That's Amore") - Lyrics / MP3
6. OSU Alma Mater Song Revised ("Carry Me Back to OSU") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
7. BB Alma Mater ("Carry Me Back to OSU") - Lyrics / MP3 /
8. Yelp ("Help") - Lyrics
9. We've Got to Punt the Ball Away ("You've Got to Hide Your Love Away") - Lyrics
10. Fairway Eleven ("Stairway to Heaven") - Lyrics
11. The High Cost of Loving ("And I Love Her") - Lyrics
12. Hyundai, Hyundai ("Monday, Monday") - Lyrics
13. A Waste of Money ("A Taste of Honey") - Lyrics
14. The LPSC Song ("Wabash Cannonball") Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
15. I Can't Charge My Cell ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
16. They're Number One (Beaver Baseball Song) ("Here Comes the Sun") - Lyrics / MP3
17. I-R-B ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics
18. Anthem of the Ginseng and Tonics ("My Way") - Lyrics
19. On Audrey ("On Broadway") - Lyrics
20. How Songs Stick in My Brain ("Gilligan's Island Theme") - Lyrics
21. Food Fight ("She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain") - Lyrics
22. Science Song Verse ("Gilligan's Island Theme") - Lyrics
23. Old Banana ("Oh Susannah") - Lyrics
24. Thank You, Mary Ann ("Those Were the Days, My Friend") - Lyrics
    
25. A Song for Barbara H ("She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain") - Lyrics
    
26. You're Turning 50 ("My Way") - Lyrics
27. New Teacher Song ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
    
28. BB Office Battle Hymn ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics

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