We All Need Just a Little ATP
(To the tune of "Yellow Submarine")
Copyright © 2003 Kevin Ahern

I am very pleased that Mr. Tim Karplus has made a professional recording of this song (more to come!). A downloadable MP3 of this song can be downloaded HERE and others can be downloaded HERE. You will need to unzip the file to release the MP3. This song is also contained on the new Metabolic Melodies CD available for sale HERE.

Instructor sings

In the cells, inside of us, there's a sugar on adenine

Which is linked, to phosphate groups, and you know it as ATP

 

Everyone Sings:

If we build up a lot of ATP, we've too much energy, metabolically

If we build up a lot of ATP, we've too much energy, metabolically

 

 

Instructor sings

And the cellular decree, calls for storing up the energy

So we save, it chemically, building acids onto ACP

 

Everyone Sings:

Making fat stores a lot of energy, creates NADP, and uses ATP

Making fat stores a lot of energy, creates NADP, and uses ATP

 

 

Instructor sings

When we need, some energy, we burn fats in fancy cell machines

Acids all, get shuttled in, on the backs of little carnitines

 

Everyone Sings:

We break acids every hour today, in mitochnodri-ay, to acetyl-CoA

We break acids every hour today, in mitochnodri-ay, to acetyl-CoA

 

 

Instructor sings

One more thing, about this tune, should be remembered by, all of you

Burning fat, converts a few, FADs to FADH2s

 

Everyone Sings:

NADH is a product too, that you can surely use, when NAD's reduced

NADH is a product too, that you can surely use, when NAD's reduced

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