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
- OSU Alma Mater Song Revised ("Carry Me Back to OSU") - Lyrics / MP3
- Complementary Bases ("California Dreamin'") - Lyrics
- Pay Per View ("Paper Moon") - Lyrics / MP3 (NEW!)
- The End of the Term ("The End of the World") - Lyrics
- Getting Wetter Every Day ("Getting Better All the Time") - Lyrics
- Yelp ("Help") - Lyrics
- God Bless These Complexes ("God Bless America") - Lyrics
- Money Guy ("Honey Pie") - Lyrics
- Transposon ("Delta Dawn") - Lyrics
Kevin's Favorite Dozen
I am often asked about my favorite lyrics. They are below. Notably, three are about Oregon.
- Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
- Central Dogma Zen ("Those Were the Days, My Friend") - co-written with Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
- I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Enzymes ("Downtown") - Lyrics / MP3
- At the Coast, Oregon's Fine All the Year ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year") - Lyrics / MP3
- Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- A Gay is No Danger ("Away in a Manger") - Lyrics / MP3
- Biochemistry Pie ("American Pie") - Lyrics / MP3
- Elemental Learning ("Sentimental Journey") - Lyrics / MP3
- Around the Nucleus ("Across the Universe") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Catalyze ("Close to You") - Lyrics / MP3
Biochemistry-Related Songs
Metabolism
- Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Photosynthesis is Divine ("Scarborough Fair") - Lyrics / MP3
- To Make a Cholesterol ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
- They Call the Stuff Urea ("They Call the Wind Mariah") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Sound of Glucose ("A Few of My Favorite Things") - Lyrics / MP3
Structure/Function
- Enzymes ("Downtown") - Lyrics / MP3
- Hemoglobin's Movin' Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- The Three R's of DNA ("Dream a Little Dream of Me") - Lyrics / MP3
- (The) Bloody Things ("CokeĀ® It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Way They Work ("The Way We Were") - Lyrics / MP3
- Ode to Bicarbonate ("Song Sung Blue") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Amino Alphabet Song ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") - Lyrics / MP3
- Chromatin ("Sunshine on My Shoulders") - Lyrics / MP3
- Deoxynucleotides ("Ticket to Ride") - Lyrics
- B-DNA ("YMCA") - Lyrics / MP3
- Hark the Sucrose ("Hark the Herald") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- The Codon Song ("When I'm 64") - Lyrics / MP3
- Histones ("The Flintstones") - Lyrics / MP3
- Hyaluronic Acid ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
- N-A-D ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics / MP3
- God Bless These Complexes ("God Bless America") - Lyrics
- The Ribosome ("America the Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Structural Lullaby ("Brahms Lullaby") - Lyrics / MP3
- Prostaglandins! ("Oklahoma!") - Lyrics / MP3
- Major Groovy ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
- Oh Little Protein Molecule ("Oh Little Town of Bethlehem") - Lyrics / MP3
Processes
- Central Dogma Zen ("Those Were the Days, My Friend" - co-written with Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
- Catalyze ("Close to You") - Lyrics / MP3
- Thank Goodness My Blood is Clotting ("Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling") - Lyrics / MP3
- Translation ("Maria" from West Side Story) - Lyrics / MP3
- The Vision Thing ("The Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics / MP3
- Transcription ("Frosty the Snowman") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Restriction Enzyme Song ("Chim Chim Cher-ee") - Lyrics
- My Old Enzymes ("Auld Lang Syne") - Lyrics / MP3
- I've Just Run a Gel ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
- The Tao of Hormones ("The Sound of Silence") - Lyrics / MP3
- The New Serine Protease Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Book of Life ("The Look of Love") - Lyrics / HERE
- I Wanna Hold Your Strands ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics
- Good Protein Synthesis ("Good King Wenceslaus") - Lyrics / MP3
- Serine Protease Song ("Blackbird") - Lyrics / MP3
- When Acids Are Synthesized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
- When Acids Get Oxidized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Glucagon is Coming Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3
- Fatty Acids in Our Cells ("Halls of Montezuma") - Lyrics / MP3
- God Rest Ye Merry Dieters ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") - Lyrics / MP3
Energy
- In My Liver ("And I Love Her") - Lyrics
- Oh Delta Gee ("Oh Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
- En-er-gy ("Let It Be") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Muscle Energy Song ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Cell's Lament ("Yesterday") - Lyrics / MP3
- We All Need Just a Little ATP ("Yellow Submarine") - Lyrics / MP3
- I'm a Little Mitochondrion ("I'm A Lumberjack") - Lyrics / MP3
Metabolic Verses
- Credit Where Credit's Due HERE
- Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes HERE
- The Citric Acid Cycle HERE
- The Glyoxylate Cycle HERE
- The Pentose Phosphate Pathway HERE
- Enzyme Inhibitors HERE
- Fatty Acid Oxidation HERE
- Fatty Acid Synthesis HERE
Student Experiences
- Biochemistry Pie ("American Pie") - Lyrics / MP3
- My 'A' ("My Way") - Lyrics / MP3
- Evolution ("Revolution") - Lyrics
- Distance Ed ("Mister Ed") - Lyrics / MP3
- BB Wonderland ("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics / MP3
- Student Nightmares ("Norwegian Wood") - Lyrics / MP3
- This Song's For BB Three Five Oh ("This Land is Your Land") - Lyrics / MP3
- I Should Have Studied Harder ("I Should Have Known Better") - Lyrics
- BB You're the Sh*ts ("Green Acres") - Lyrics / MP3
- I Studied So Hard Last Night ("I Saw Her Again Last Night") - Lyrics
- Mellow Woes of Testing ("Yellow Rose of Texas") - Lyrics / MP3
- Anthem of BB 350 ("She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain") - Lyrics / MP3
- The End of the Term ("The End of the World") - Lyrics
- Oh Daddy Dear ("Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
- Things You Should Remember ("In My Life") - Lyrics / MP3
- Just Go Do It ("I Am Woman") - Lyrics
- Biochem is Beautiful ("Everything is Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3
- Biochemistry, Biochemistry ("Oh Christmas Tree") - Lyrics / MP3
- Online Movie ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
- Thank God There's a Video ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
- Students Rejoice ("Joy to the World") - Lyrics
Health
- I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- It's a Toothache Baby ("It's Too Late") Lyrics / MP3
- Your Poor Veins ("You're So Vain") - Lyrics / MP3
- Dieter Song ("Story of Love") - Lyrics / MP3
- I'm Heaving on a Jet Plane ("I'm Leaving On a Jet Plane") - Lyrics
- I'll Be Thin at Christmas ("I'll Be Home For Christmas") - Lyrics / MP3
- Kidney Stone ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") - Lyrics
- Don't Get the Bends ("You've Got a Friend") - Lyrics / MP3
- Prostate ("YMCA") - Lyrics
- (Give Us) Real Things ("(Coke) It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics/ MP3
- The Ointment Song ("My Valentine") - Lyrics / MP3
- I Caught Your Cold ("I Got You Babe") - Lyrics
- The Weight I Gained Last Week ("The Way You Look Tonight") - Lyrics
- You've Gotta Lose That Gut ("You're Gonna Lose That Girl") - Lyrics
- I'm Ill ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
- Viagra ("Maria") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Vegetarian Song ("Blowin' in the Wind") - Lyrics / MP3
General Science
- Elemental Learning ("Sentimental Journey") - Lyrics / MP3
- Around the Nucleus ("Across the Universe") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Under the Ocean ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
- Transposon ("Delta Dawn") - Lyrics
- The Number Song ("Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime") - Lyrics / MP3
- Complementary Bases ("California Dreamin'") - Lyrics
- Tidal Pool Song ("Jingle Bells" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
- Fishy Tale ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics
- Henderson Hasselbalch ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics / MP3
- Swimmin' Round in Puget Sound ("Yellow Submarine") - Lyrics / MP3
- His Hair is Everywhere ("Here, There, and Everywhere") - Lyrics
- The E. coli Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
- Brain Farts Just Happen In My Head ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head") - Lyrics / MP3
- If You're Molecular and Know It, Clap Your Hands ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands") - Lyrics / MP3
- The Battle Hymn of Biochemistry ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
- This Biochemistry ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics
Non-Biochemistry Songs
Social Commentary
- A Gay is No Danger ("Away in a Manger") - Lyrics/ MP3
- Trader Joe's Tonight ("Strangers in the Night") - Lyrics / MP3
- She's Staying Home ("She's Leaving Home") - Lyrics / MP3
- With a Little Hemp From My Friends ("With a Little Help From My Friends") - Lyrics
- Pay Per View ("Paper Moon") - Lyrics / MP3
- They Are Watching You ("Every Breath You Take") - Lyrics
- Dumb Baby Names ("Sweet Baby James") - Lyrics
- All My Junk Mail ("All My Loving") - Lyrics
- Turn Off That Damn Cell Phone ("The Long and Winding Road") - Lyrics / MP3
- I've Just Changed My Face ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
- Porn Free ("Born Free") - Lyrics
- The Walgreens Song ("If I Fell") - Lyrics / MP3
- Money Guy ("Honey Pie") - Lyrics
- When Ole Mitt Was Running Bain ("If I Only Had a Brain") - Lyrics
- The Second Romney Song ("Drive My Car") - Lyrics
- All We Need Are Votes ("All You Need is Love") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Paperless Writer ("Paperback Writer") - Lyrics
- Gay Waiter ("Day Tripper") - Lyrics
- Ring Tones ("Meet the Flintstones") - Lyrics
- Wakin' Up is Hard to Do ("Breakin' Up is Hard to Do") - Lyrics / MP3
- Mother Nature's Done ("Mother Nature's Son") - Lyrics
- She Likes You ("She Loves You") - Lyrics
- Can't Buy Enough ("Can't Buy Me Love") - Lyrics
- They Pillaged the Financial Markets ("She Came in Through the Bathroom Window") - Lyrics
- I'm at the Wal-Mart ("I Am the Walrus") - Lyrics
- You Never Gave Me a Login ("You Never Give Me Your Money") - Lyrics
- Maybe I'll Sue ("Baby It's You") - Lyrics
Life In Oregon
- Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
- At the Coast, Oregon's Fine All the Year ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year") - Lyrics / MP3
- Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- Crappy Days Are Here Again ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics / MP3
- Make It Stop ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3
- Getting Wetter Every Day ("Getting Better All the Time") - Lyrics
- Month of Rain ("King of Pain") - Lyrics
- Oregon City Song ("Desperado") - Lyrics / MP3
Miscellany
- Composting Song ("Dixie") - Lyrics/ MP3
- The Ballad of Andy Karplus ("That's Amore") - Lyrics / MP3
- We've Got to Punt the Ball Away ("You've Got to Hide Your Love Away") - Lyrics
- The LPSC Song ("Wabash Cannonball") Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
- I Can't Charge My Cell ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
- Anthem of the Ginseng and Tonics ("My Way") - Lyrics
- Thank You, Mary Ann ("Those Were the Days, My Friend") - Lyrics
- When Songs Stick in My Brain ("Gilligan's Island Theme") - Lyrics
- A Song for Barbara H ("She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain") - Lyrics
- You're Turning 50 ("My Way") - Lyrics
- New Teacher Song ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
- BB Office Battle Hymn ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
Support the Metabolic Melodies and Limericks
Writing, recording, posting, and delivering the Metabolic Melodies and Limericks for download is not a trivial amount of expense.
Help keep them free for everyone by buying or downloading our books and calendar below.
"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
Download our free "Biochemistry Free and Easy" textbook HERE / Access all of Kevin's free materials, YouTube videos and workshops HERE
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