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

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.

"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 available there too. 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 new 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.

"A Limerick a Day For a Year" is a collection of limericks I wrote in 2012 (samples HERE). Complete collections are available HERE/ HERE / HERE / HERE

I love to hear from fans of all of these efforts. I can be reached easily via email, Facebook, YouTube, or you can follow me on Twitter (@ahernk1).
My professional page is HERE. My CV is HERE, and a page of links to mostly free goodies I offer is HERE.

Latest / Greatest Metabolic Melodies

  1. OSU Alma Mater Song Revised ("Carry Me Back to OSU") - Lyrics / MP3
  2. Complementary Bases ("California Dreamin'") - Lyrics
  3. Pay Per View ("Paper Moon") - Lyrics / MP3 (NEW!)
  4. The End of the Term ("The End of the World") - Lyrics
  5. Getting Wetter Every Day ("Getting Better All the Time") - Lyrics
  6. Yelp ("Help") - Lyrics
  7. God Bless These Complexes ("God Bless America") - Lyrics
  8. Money Guy ("Honey Pie") - Lyrics
  9. Transposon ("Delta Dawn") - Lyrics

Kevin's Favorite Dozen
I am often asked about my favorite lyrics. They are below. Notably, three are about Oregon.

  1. Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
  2. Central Dogma Zen ("Those Were the Days, My Friend") - co-written with Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
  3. I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  4. Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  5. Enzymes ("Downtown") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. At the Coast, Oregon's Fine All the Year ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year") - Lyrics / MP3
  7. Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  8. A Gay is No Danger ("Away in a Manger") - Lyrics / MP3
  9. Biochemistry Pie ("American Pie") - Lyrics / MP3
  10. Elemental Learning ("Sentimental Journey") - Lyrics / MP3
  11. Around the Nucleus ("Across the Universe") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  12. Catalyze ("Close to You") - Lyrics / MP3

Biochemistry-Related Songs

Metabolism

  1. Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  2. Photosynthesis is Divine ("Scarborough Fair") - Lyrics / MP3
  3. To Make a Cholesterol ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
  4. They Call the Stuff Urea ("They Call the Wind Mariah") - Lyrics / MP3
  5. 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) Bloody Things ("Coke® It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics / MP3
  5. The Way They Work ("The Way We Were") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. Ode to Bicarbonate ("Song Sung Blue") - Lyrics / MP3
  7. The Amino Alphabet Song ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") - Lyrics / MP3
  8. Chromatin ("Sunshine on My Shoulders") - Lyrics / MP3
  9. Deoxynucleotides ("Ticket to Ride") - Lyrics
  10. B-DNA ("YMCA") - Lyrics / MP3
  11. Hark the Sucrose ("Hark the Herald") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  12. The Codon Song ("When I'm 64") - Lyrics / MP3
  13. Histones ("The Flintstones") - Lyrics / MP3
  14. Hyaluronic Acid ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
  15. N-A-D ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics / MP3
  16. God Bless These Complexes ("God Bless America") - Lyrics
  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. 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. The Vision Thing ("The Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. Transcription ("Frosty the Snowman") - Lyrics / MP3
  7. The Restriction Enzyme Song ("Chim Chim Cher-ee") - Lyrics
  8. My Old Enzymes ("Auld Lang Syne") - Lyrics / MP3
  9. I've Just Run a Gel ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
  10. The Tao of Hormones ("The Sound of Silence") - Lyrics / MP3
  11. The New Serine Protease Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
  12. The Book of Life ("The Look of Love") - Lyrics / HERE
  13. I Wanna Hold Your Strands ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics
  14. Good Protein Synthesis ("Good King Wenceslaus") - Lyrics / MP3
  15. Serine Protease Song ("Blackbird") - Lyrics / MP3
  16. When Acids Are Synthesized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
  17. When Acids Get Oxidized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  18. Glucagon is Coming Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3
  19. Fatty Acids in Our Cells ("Halls of Montezuma") - Lyrics / MP3
  20. God Rest Ye Merry Dieters ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") - Lyrics / MP3

Energy

  1. In My Liver ("And I Love Her") - Lyrics
  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. Evolution ("Revolution") - Lyrics
  4. Distance Ed ("Mister Ed") - Lyrics / MP3
  5. BB Wonderland ("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. Student Nightmares ("Norwegian Wood") - Lyrics / MP3
  7. This Song's For BB Three Five Oh ("This Land is Your Land") - Lyrics / MP3
  8. I Should Have Studied Harder ("I Should Have Known Better") - Lyrics
  9. BB You're the Sh*ts ("Green Acres") - Lyrics / MP3
  10. I Studied So Hard Last Night ("I Saw Her Again Last Night") - Lyrics
  11. Mellow Woes of Testing ("Yellow Rose of Texas") - Lyrics / MP3
  12. Anthem of BB 350 ("She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain") - Lyrics / MP3
  13. The End of the Term ("The End of the World") - Lyrics
  14. Oh Daddy Dear ("Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
  15. Things You Should Remember ("In My Life") - Lyrics / MP3
  16. Just Go Do It ("I Am Woman") - Lyrics
  17. Biochem is Beautiful ("Everything is Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3
  18. Biochemistry, Biochemistry ("Oh Christmas Tree") - Lyrics / MP3
  19. Online Movie ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
  20. Thank God There's a Video ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
  21. Students Rejoice ("Joy to the World") - Lyrics

Health

  1. I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  2. It's a Toothache Baby ("It's Too Late") Lyrics / MP3
  3. Your Poor Veins ("You're So Vain") - Lyrics / MP3
  4. Dieter Song ("Story of Love") - Lyrics / MP3
  5. I'm Heaving on a Jet Plane ("I'm Leaving On a Jet Plane") - Lyrics
  6. I'll Be Thin at Christmas ("I'll Be Home For Christmas") - Lyrics / MP3
  7. Kidney Stone ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") - Lyrics
  8. Don't Get the Bends ("You've Got a Friend") - Lyrics / MP3
  9. Prostate ("YMCA") - Lyrics
  10. (Give Us) Real Things ("(Coke) It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics/ MP3
  11. The Ointment Song ("My Valentine") - Lyrics / MP3
  12. I Caught Your Cold ("I Got You Babe") - Lyrics
  13. The Weight I Gained Last Week ("The Way You Look Tonight") - Lyrics
  14. You've Gotta Lose That Gut ("You're Gonna Lose That Girl") - Lyrics
  15. I'm Ill ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
  16. Viagra ("Maria") - Lyrics / MP3
  17. 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. Transposon ("Delta Dawn") - Lyrics
  5. The Number Song ("Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. Complementary Bases ("California Dreamin'") - Lyrics
  7. Tidal Pool Song ("Jingle Bells" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
  8. Fishy Tale ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics
  9. Henderson Hasselbalch ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics / MP3
  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-Biochemistry Songs

Social Commentary

  1. A Gay is No Danger ("Away in a Manger") - Lyrics/ MP3
  2. Trader Joe's Tonight ("Strangers in the Night") - Lyrics / MP3
  3. She's Staying Home ("She's Leaving Home") - Lyrics / MP3
  4. With a Little Hemp From My Friends ("With a Little Help From My Friends") - Lyrics
  5. Pay Per View ("Paper Moon") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. They Are Watching You ("Every Breath You Take") - Lyrics
  7. Dumb Baby Names ("Sweet Baby James") - Lyrics
  8. All My Junk Mail ("All My Loving") - Lyrics
  9. Turn Off That Damn Cell Phone ("The Long and Winding Road") - Lyrics / MP3
  10. I've Just Changed My Face ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
  11. Porn Free ("Born Free") - Lyrics
  12. The Walgreens Song ("If I Fell") - Lyrics / MP3
  13. Money Guy ("Honey Pie") - Lyrics
  14. When Ole Mitt Was Running Bain ("If I Only Had a Brain") - Lyrics
  15. The Second Romney Song ("Drive My Car") - Lyrics
  16. All We Need Are Votes ("All You Need is Love") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  17. Paperless Writer ("Paperback Writer") - Lyrics
  18. Gay Waiter ("Day Tripper") - Lyrics
  19. Ring Tones ("Meet the Flintstones") - Lyrics
  20. Wakin' Up is Hard to Do ("Breakin' Up is Hard to Do") - Lyrics / MP3
  21. Mother Nature's Done ("Mother Nature's Son") - Lyrics
  22. She Likes You ("She Loves You") - Lyrics
  23. Can't Buy Enough ("Can't Buy Me Love") - Lyrics
  24. They Pillaged the Financial Markets ("She Came in Through the Bathroom Window") - Lyrics
  25. I'm at the Wal-Mart ("I Am the Walrus") - Lyrics
  26. You Never Gave Me a Login ("You Never Give Me Your Money") - Lyrics
  27. Maybe I'll Sue ("Baby It's You") - Lyrics

Life In Oregon

  1. Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
  2. At the Coast, Oregon's Fine All the Year ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year") - Lyrics / MP3
  3. Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  4. Crappy Days Are Here Again ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics / MP3
  5. Make It Stop ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3
  6. Getting Wetter Every Day ("Getting Better All the Time") - Lyrics
  7. Month of Rain ("King of Pain") - Lyrics
  8. Oregon City Song ("Desperado") - Lyrics / MP3

Miscellany

  1. Composting Song ("Dixie") - Lyrics/ MP3
  2. The Ballad of Andy Karplus ("That's Amore") - Lyrics / MP3
  3. We've Got to Punt the Ball Away ("You've Got to Hide Your Love Away") - Lyrics
  4. The LPSC Song ("Wabash Cannonball") Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
  5. I Can't Charge My Cell ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
  6. Anthem of the Ginseng and Tonics ("My Way") - Lyrics
  7. Thank You, Mary Ann ("Those Were the Days, My Friend") - Lyrics
  8. When Songs Stick in My Brain ("Gilligan's Island Theme") - Lyrics
  9. A Song for Barbara H ("She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain") - Lyrics
  10. You're Turning 50 ("My Way") - Lyrics
  11. New Teacher Song ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
  12. BB Office Battle Hymn ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics

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Writing, recording, posting, and delivering the Metabolic Melodies and Limericks for download is not a trivial amount of expense.
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"Kevin and Indira's Guide to Getting Into Medical School" Free versionHERE / Printer version HERE / Kindle version HERE
"The Splendidest Ever Metabolic Melodies" HERE / HERE / HERE / E-book version / PDF version
"A Limerick a Day For a Year" HERE / HERE / HERE
Metabolic Melodies Calendar for 2013 HERE

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