The Ribosome
(To the tune of America the Beautiful)
Copyright ©2007 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.

O beautiful with R-N-A
To make the peptide bonds
You hold t-RNA so it
Can pair up with co-dons
The Ribosome! The Ribosome!
Translate mRNA
Initiate and translocate
From start to UGA

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