The Number Song

(to the tune of “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime”)

Copyright © 2011 Kevin Ahern

I am very pleased that Mr. David Simmons has made a professional recording of this song (complete song downloadable HERE) and others can be downloaded HERE. You will need to unzip the file to release the MP3. I am providing all songs for free download, but hope you will support this effort by purchasing my Metabolic Melody albums or calendar at the URLs at the bottom of the lyrics to this song. 

Avogadro’s number is a huge one

Boltzmann's constant's rather miniscule

Values differing enormously

As WE learned in school

Science numbers need to have dimensions

Size is not the most important thing

Units give the yardsticks needed

For under-STAN-ding

Bridge

It’s taught in the ivory towers

By professors it's so ballyhooed

Values can have such diff’rent powers

That to know them we must have their magnitudes

One light year’s a really lengthy distance

Grams define the masses high and low

The ohm can measure the resistance

If current should flow

Bridge

One set of factors you SHOULD know

The roots of seven and of three et al

Cannot be expressed as a ratio

Oh these numbers all are quite irration-al

Three point one four one five nine two six five

No end to Pi’s digits it’s absurd

Endlessly reminding me that I’ve

BEEN SO OUT-num-bered

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