Kevin Ahern's Wildly Popular Metabolic Melodies and Verses

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I write the Metabolic Melodies and Verses for the BB 350, BB 450/550 and BB 451/551 classes I teach at Oregon State University. I have dipped my toe in the water of writing lyrics about things other than biochemistry and decided to call them Metabolic Melodies, as well. I include them here. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy writing them.

All of the MP3 recordings are full versions. Please help support the Metabolic Melodies by purchasing the Metabolic Melodies Songbook (HERE) or Metabolic Melodies Calendar (HERE). You can download a PDF containing all of the lyrics HERE. If you'd like to watch my lectures featuring these songs, you can check them out HERE, HERE, and HERE. Contact me at ahernk@onid.orst.edu

1/14/12 - Exciting New Feature - A New Limerick A Day for 2012 HERE

1/2/12 - Happy New Year Songs (2) -
1. The Vision Thing ("The Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics
2. Oregon City Song ("Desperado") - Lyrics

12/26/11 - Fantastic New Recording - It's a Toothache, Baby ("It's Too Late") - Lyrics / MP3

12/22/11 - Christmas Eve Surprise - New Recording - Trader Joe's Tonight ("Strangers in the Night") - Lyrics / MP3

12/14/11 - New song - Month of Rain ("King of Pain") - Lyrics / New Recording - Elemental Learning ("Sentimental Journey") - Lyrics / MP3

12/13/11 - Two new songs - I Can't Charge My Cell ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics / I Am Kevin ("I Am Woman") - Lyrics

11/15/11 - New Recording - Under the Ocean ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3

11/6/11 - More Metabolic Verses - The Glyoxylate Cycle HERE / Enzyme Inhibitors HERE / Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes HERE

11/1/11 - Metabolic Verses - Credit Where Credit's Due HERE / The Pentose Phosphate Pathway HERE / Fatty Acid Oxidation HERE / Fatty Acid Synthesis HERE / The Citric Acid Cycle HERE

10/19/11 - The Latest, Greatest, Wildly Popular Metabolic Melodies book is now available from Amazon (HERE) and Barnes and Noble (HERE)

Metabolism

1. Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
2. Photosynthesis is Divine ("Scarborough Fair") - Lyrics / MP3
3. The Sound of Glucose ("A Few of My Favorite Things") - Lyrics / MP3
4. To Make a Cholesterol ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
5. They Call the Stuff Urea ("They Call the Wind Mariah") - 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 Way They Work ("The Way We Were") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Chromatin ("Sunshine on My Shoulders") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Ode to Bicarbonate ("Song Sung Blue") - Lyrics / MP3
7. (The) Bloody Things ("Coke® It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics
8. Deoxynucleotides ("Ticket to Ride") - Lyrics
9. B-DNA ("YMCA") - Lyrics / MP3
10. Hark the Sucrose ("Hark the Herald") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
11. The Codon Song ("When I'm 64") - Lyrics / MP3
12. Histones ("The Flintstones") - Lyrics / MP3
13. Hyaluronic Acid ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
14. N-A-D ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics / MP3
15. The Ribosome ("America the Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
16. The Amino Alphabet Song ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") - Lyrics / MP3
17. Structural Lullaby ("Brahms Lullaby") - Lyrics / MP3
18. Prostaglandins! ("Oklahoma!") - Lyrics / MP3
19. Major Groovy ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
20. Oh Little Protein Molecule ("Oh Little Town of Bethlehem") - Lyrics / MP3

Processes

1. Central Dogma Zen ("Those Were the Days, My Friend" - by Indira Rajagopal and Kevin Ahern) - Lyrics / MP3
2. Catalyze ("Close to You") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Thank Goodness My Blood is Clotting ("Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Translation ("Maria" from West Side Story) - Lyrics / MP3
5. Transcription ("Frosty the Snowman") - Lyrics
6. My Old Enzymes ("Auld Lang Syne") - Lyrics / MP3
7. I've Just Run a Gel ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
8. The Tao of Hormones ("The Sound of Silence") - Lyrics / MP3
9. The New Serine Protease Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics
10. I Wanna Hold Your Strands ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics
11. Good Protein Synthesis ("Good King Wenceslaus") - Lyrics / MP3
12. Serine Protease Song ("Blackbird") - Lyrics / MP3
13. When Acids are Synthesized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
14. When Acids Get Oxidized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
15. Glucagon is Coming Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3
16. Fatty Acids in Our Cells ("Halls of Montezuma") - Lyrics / MP3
17. God Rest Ye Merry Dieters ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") - Lyrics / MP3

Energy

1. Oh Delta Gee ("Oh Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
2. En-er-gy ("Let It Be") - Lyrics / MP3
3. The Muscle Energy Song ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
4. The Cell's Lament ("Yesterday") - Lyrics / MP3
5. We All Need Just a Little ATP ("Yellow Submarine") - Lyrics / MP3
6. 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. Evolution ("Revolution") - Lyrics
4. BB Wonderland("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Student Nightmares ("Norwegian Wood") - Lyrics / MP3
6. This Song's For BB Three Five Oh ("This Land is Your Land") - Lyrics / MP3
7. I Should Have Studied Harder ("I Should Have Known Better") - Lyrics
8. BB You're the Sh*ts ("Green Acres") - Lyrics / MP3
9. I Studied So Hard Last Night ("I Saw Her Again Last Night") - Lyrics
10. Mellow Woes of Testing ("Yellow Rose of Texas") - Lyrics / MP3
11. Anthem of BB 350 ("She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain") - Lyrics / MP3
12. Oh Daddy Dear ("Oh Danny Boy") - Lyrics
13. Things You Should Remember ("In My Life") - Lyrics / MP3
14. I Am Kevin ("I' Am Woman") - Lyrics
15. Biochem is Beautiful ("Everything is Beautiful") - Lyrics
16. Biochemistry, Biochemistry ("Oh Christmas Tree") - Lyrics / MP3
17. Online Movie ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
18. Thank God There's a Video ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
19. Students Rejoice ("Joy to the World") - Lyrics

Miscellany

1. I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
2. Elemental Learning ("Sentimental Journey") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Prostate ("YMCA") - Lyrics
4. Your Poor Veins ("You're So Vain") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Viagra ("Maria") - Lyrics
6. Around the Nucleus ("Across the Universe") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
7. The Number Song ("Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime") - Lyrics / MP3
8. Fishy Tale ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics
9. Under the Ocean ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
10. Henderson Hasselbalch ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics / MP3
11. It's a Toothache Baby ("It's Too Late") Lyrics / MP3
12. Kidney Stone ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") - Lyrics
13. The Ballad of Andy Karplus ("That's Amore") - Lyrics / MP3
14. Don't Get the Bends ("You've Got a Friend") - Lyrics / MP3
15. The LPSC Song ("Wabash Cannonball") Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
16. (Give Us) Real Things ("(Coke) It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics / MP3
17. The E. coli Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
18. Brain Farts Just Happen In My Head ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head") - Lyrics / MP3
19. The Vegetarian Song ("Blowin' in the Wind") - Lyrics / MP3
20. Oregon City Song ("Desperado") - Lyrics
21. If You're Molecular and Know It, Clap Your Hands ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands") - Lyrics / MP3
22. I'm Ill ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
23. The Battle Hymn of Biochemistry ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
24. This Biochemistry ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics

Modern Life

1. With a Little Hemp From My Friends ("With a Little Help From My Friends") - Lyrics
2. Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
3. They Are Watching You ("Every Breath You Take") - Lyrics
4. Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / YouTube
5. All We Need Are Votes ("All You Need is Love") - Lyrics
6. Turn Off That Damn Cell Phone ("The Long and Winding Road") - Lyrics
7. I Can't Charge My Cell ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
8. I've Just Changed My Face ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
9. Trader Joe's Tonight ("Strangers in the Night") - Lyrics
10. I'll Be Thin at Christmas ("I'll Be Home For Christmas") - Lyrics
11. His Hair is Everywhere ("Here, There, and Everywhere") - Lyrics
12. Crappy Days Are Here Again ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics / MP3
13. We've Got to Punt the Ball Away ("You've Got to Hide Your Love Away") - Lyrics
14. Make It Stop ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3
15. Porn Free ("Born Free") - Lyrics
16. Paperless Writer ("Paperback Writer") - Lyrics
17. Month of Rain ("King of Pain") - Lyrics
18. Gay Waiter ("Day Tripper") - Lyrics
19. Ring Tones ("Meet the Flintstones") - Lyrics
20. She's Staying Home ("She's Leaving Home") - Lyrics / MP3
21. Wakin' Up is Hard to Do ("Breakin' Up is Hard to Do") - Lyrics
22. Can't Buy Enough ("Can't Buy Me Love") - Lyrics
23. They Pillaged the Financial Markets ("She Came in Through the Bathroom Window") - Lyrics
24. I'm at the Wal-Mart ("I Am the Walrus") - Lyrics
25. You Never Gave Me a Login ("You Never Give Me Your Money") - Lyrics
26. Mother Nature's Done ("Mother Nature's Son") - Lyrics
27. Maybe I'll Sue ("Baby It's You") - Lyrics