I write Metabolic Melodies and Verses for the 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 below. If you'd like to watch my lectures featuring these songs, you can select from collections of them HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Latest / Greatest Lyrics (In decreasing order of newness)

1. Sani-Cloth is Cleaning Up Town ("Santa Claus Is Coming to Town") - Lyrics
2. There is a Virus on the Loose ("When There's a Grapefruit in Your Life") - Lyrics
3. Grandma Got Infected by That Virus ("Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer") - Lyrics
4. Beaver Believer ("Daydream Believer") - Lyrics
5. Orange Head ("Mr. Ed") - Lyrics
6. Trumpster Donald ("Old MacDonald") - Lyrics
7. No Moore ("Oh Susannah!") - Lyrics
8. Donny Boy ("Danny Boy") - Lyrics
9. What He Tried To Do Back There ("I Saw Her Standing There") - Lyrics
10. No-Hair Man ("Nowhere Man") - Lyrics
11. Neanderthals ("Send in the Clowns") - Lyrics
12. Donald's Ditty ("I Feel Pretty") - Lyrics
13. The Zen of Don ("The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song") - Lyrics
14. I Wanna Understand ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics / MP3
15. You Won't Be a Goin' ("Original Twangy Country Tune") - Lyrics / MP3
16. The Coastal Aquarium ("Age of Aquarius") - Lyrics

ALL of the Metabolic Melodies (Biochemistry and Non-Biochemistry) follow below.

Biochemistry/Science Songs

Metabolism

1. Gluconeogenesis ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
2. Photosynthesis is Divine ("Scarborough Fair") - Lyrics / MP3
3. They Call the Stuff Urea ("They Call the Wind Mariah") - Lyrics / MP3
4. To Make a Cholesterol ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
5. The Citric Acid Cycle ("When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") - Lyrics / MP3
6. 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 / OSU YouTube
3. You're Cysteine ("You're Sixteen") Lyrics / MP3
4. The Three R's of DNA ("Dream a Little Dream of Me") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Superoxide Dismutase ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") - Lyrics
6. The Amino Alphabet Song ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") - Lyrics / MP3
7. Heme ("Jean") - Lyrics
8. Ode to Bicarbonate ("Song Sung Blue") - Lyrics / MP3
9. (The) Bloody Things ("Coke® It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics / MP3
10. The Way They Work ("The Way We Were") - Lyrics / MP3
11. Chromatin ("Sunshine on My Shoulders") - Lyrics / MP3
12. God Bless These Complexes ("God Bless America") - Lyrics / MP3
13. Deoxynucleotides ("Ticket to Ride") - Lyrics / MP3
14. B-DNA ("YMCA") - Lyrics / MP3
15. Hark the Sucrose ("Hark the Herald") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
16. The Codon Song ("When I'm 64") - Lyrics / MP3
17. Histones ("The Flintstones") - Lyrics / MP3
18. Hyaluronic Acid ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics / MP3
19. N-A-D ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics / MP3
20. The Ribosome ("America the Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
21. Structural Lullaby ("Brahms Lullaby") - Lyrics / MP3
22. Prostaglandins! ("Oklahoma!") - Lyrics / MP3
23. Major Groovy ("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
24. 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. Thank Goodness My Blood is Clotting ("Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Catalyze ("Close to You") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Translation ("Maria" from West Side Story) - Lyrics / MP3
5. The Vision Thing ("The Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics / MP3
6. The Restriction Enzyme Song ("Chim Chim Cher-ee") - Lyrics
7. Transcription ("Frosty the Snowman") - Lyrics / MP3
8. My Old Enzymes ("Auld Lang Syne") - Lyrics / MP3
9. It Flows, Then My Glycogen Grows ("Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes") - Lyrics
10. The Tao of Hormones ("The Sound of Silence") - Lyrics / MP3
11. I've Just Run a Gel ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics / MP3
12. The New Serine Protease Song ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") -Lyrics / MP3
13. Protein Wonderland ("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics
14. The Book of Life ("The Look of Love") - Lyrics / MP3
15. Good Protein Synthesis ("Good King Wenceslaus") - Lyrics / MP3
16. I Wanna Hold Your Strands ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics
17. When Acids Are Synthesized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3
18. When Acids Get Oxidized ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
19. Serine Protease Song ("Blackbird") - Lyrics / MP3
20. Glucagon is Coming Around ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") - Lyrics / MP3
21. Mismatch Site ("Silent Night") - Lyrics
22. Fatty Acids in Our Cells ("Halls of Montezuma") - Lyrics / MP3
23. God Rest Ye Merry Dieters ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") - Lyrics / MP3

Energy

1. In My Liver ("And I Love Her") - Lyrics / MP3
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. Distance Ed ("Mister Ed") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Evolution ("Revolution") - Lyrics
5. BB Wonderland ("Winter Wonderland") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Student Nightmares ("Norwegian Wood") - Lyrics / MP3
7. Mellow Woes of Testing ("Yellow Rose of Texas") - Lyrics / MP3
8. This Song's For BB Three Five Oh ("This Land is Your Land") - Lyrics / MP3
9. Anthem for BB 350 ("She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain") - Lyrics / MP3
10. Thank God There's a Video ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
11. Biochem is Beautiful ("Everything is Beautiful") - Lyrics / MP3
12. BB You're the Sh*ts ("Green Acres") - Lyrics / MP3
13. I Studied So Hard Last Night ("I Saw Her Again Last Night") - Lyrics
14. I Should Have Studied Harder ("I Should Have Known Better") - Lyrics
15. Oh Daddy Dear ("Danny Boy") - Lyrics / MP3
16. Things You Should Remember ("In My Life") - Lyrics / MP3
17. I Wanna Understand ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand") - Lyrics / MP3
18. Biochemistry, Biochemistry ("Oh Christmas Tree") - Lyrics / MP3
19. A Course With No Aim ("A Horse With No Name") - Lyrics / MP3
20. National Merit Scholars ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics
21. Online Movie("Feelin' Groovy") - Lyrics / MP3
22. The Bad Instructor Anthem ("Star Spangled Banner") - Lyrics
23. Just Do It ("I Am Woman") - Lyrics
24. The End of the Term ("The End of the World") - Lyrics
25. Students Rejoice ("Joy to the World") - Lyrics

Health

1. I Lost a Lung ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
2. At Dairy Queen ("At Seventeen") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Your Poor Veins ("You're So Vain") - Lyrics / MP3
4. It's a Toothache Baby ("It's Too Late") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Dieter's Song ("Story of Love") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Heavin' on a Jet Plane ("Leavin' ") - Lyrics / MP3
7. New Pain Reliever ("Daydream Believer") - Lyrics
8. I'll Be Thin at Christmas ("I'll Be Home For Christmas") - Lyrics / MP3
9. A Hardees Night ("A Hard Day's Night") - Lyrics
10. The Ointment Song ("My Valentine") - Lyrics / MP3
11. Kidney Stone ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") - Lyrics
12. Sani-Cloth is Cleaning Up Town ("Santa Claus Is Coming to Town") - Lyrics
13. Don't Get the Bends ("You've Got a Friend") - Lyrics / MP3
14. Medical Marijuana ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") - Lyrics
15. Viagra ("Maria") - Lyrics / MP3
16. Prostate ("YMCA") - Lyrics
17. (Give Us) Real Things ("(Coke) It's the Real Thing") - Lyrics/ MP3
18. I Caught Your Cold ("I Got You Babe") - Lyrics
19. The Weight I Gained Last Week ("The Way You Look Tonight") - Lyrics / MP3
20. The Thin You, The Fat You ("Within You, Without You") - Lyrics
21. You've Gotta Lose That Gut ("You're Gonna Lose That Girl") - Lyrics
22. My Sweet Tooth ("My Sweet Lord") - Lyrics
23. Health Care Is Coming ("Morning Has Broken") - Lyrics
24. The Colonoscopy Song ("Oh Christmas Tree")- Lyrics
25. I'm Ill ("I Will") - Lyrics / MP3
26. 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. Henderson Hasselbalch ("My Country 'Tis of Thee") - Lyrics / MP3
5. Avogadro's Number is a Huge One ("Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Transposon ("Delta Dawn") - Lyrics / MP3
7. Complementary Bases ("California Dreamin'") - Lyrics
8. Tidal Pool Song ("Jingle Bells" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics / MP3
9. Fishy Tales ("If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands" by Indira Rajagopal) - Lyrics
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-Science Songs

Life In The Pacific Northwest

1. At the Coast, Oregon's Fine All the Year ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Under the Rainbow ("Over the Rainbow") - Lyrics / MP3
3. VooDoo ("My Guy") - Lyrics / MP3
4. Let It Rain ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
5. Dr. Frei ("Auld Lang Syne") - Lyrics / MP3
6. Hood River ("Moon River") - Lyrics / MP3
7. The Coastal Aquarium ("Age of Aquarius") - Lyrics
8. The Learning Innovation Center at OSU ("Yellow Rose of Texas") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
9. Blueberry Fields Forever ("Strawberry Fields Forever") - Lyrics
10. Crappy Days Are Here Again ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics / MP3
11. Make It Stop ("Let It Snow") - Lyrics / MP3
12. Benny Beaver Song ("Red River Valley") - Lyrics / MP3 (related video HERE)
13. Beaver Believer ("Daydream Believer") - Lyrics
14. OSU Crane Song ("It Never Rains in Southern California") - Lyrics
15. They're Number One (Beaver Baseball Song) ("Here Comes the Sun") - Lyrics / MP3
16. The Crappiest Weather ("Happy Together") - Lyrics / MP3
17. Getting Wetter Every Day ("Getting Better All the Time") - Lyrics
18. Oregon City Song ("Desperado")- Lyrics / MP3
19. Month of Rain ("King of Pain") - Lyrics
20. Where is the Sunshine?("You Are My Sunshine") - Lyrics

Miscellany

1. What'll I Chew? (The Puppy Song) ("What'll I Do?") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Tari & Ian's Wedding Toast ("Vincent - Starry, Starry Night") - Lyrics
3. Composting Song ("Dixie") - Lyrics/ MP3
4. Megan and Ryan's Wedding Song ("Greensleeves") - Lyrics / MP3 / Wedding Video
5. The Ballad of Andy Karplus ("That's Amore")- Lyrics / MP3
6. OSU Alma Mater Song Revised ("Carry Me Back to OSU") - Lyrics/ MP3 / YouTube
7. BB Alma Mater ("Carry Me Back to OSU") - Lyrics / MP3 /
8. Yelp! ("Help!") - Lyrics
9. Chair in the Valley ("Red River Valley") - Lyrics
10. We've Got to Punt the Ball Away ("You've Got to Hide Your Love Away") - Lyrics
11. Fairway Eleven ("Stairway to Heaven") - Lyrics
12. No-Hair Man - ("Nowhere Man") - Lyrics
13. In Walla Walla ("Que Sera, Sera") - Lyrics
14. The High Cost of Loving ("And I Love Her") - Lyrics
15. Hyundai, Hyundai ("Monday, Monday") - Lyrics
16. A Waste of Money ("A Taste of Honey") - Lyrics
17. The LPSC Song ("Wabash Cannonball") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
18. I Can't Charge My Cell ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
19. Out On Vineyard Hill ("On Bluebrry Hill") - Lyrics
20. I-R-B ("Penny Lane") - Lyrics
21. Anthem of the Ginseng and Tonics ("My Way") - Lyrics
22. The 12 Days of Karplus ("Twelve Days of Christmas") - Lyrics
23. For Audrey ("On Broadway") - Lyrics
24. How Songs Stick in My Brain ("Gilligan's Island Theme") - Lyrics
25. Food Fight ("She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain") - Lyrics
26. Science Song Verse ("Gilligan's Island Theme") - Lyrics
27. Old Banana ("Oh Susannah") - Lyrics
28. Thank You, Mary Ann ("Those Were the Days, My Friend") - Lyrics
29. A Song for Barbara H ("She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain") - Lyrics
30. You're Turning 50 ("My ") - Lyrics
31. New Teacher Song ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics
32. BB Office Battle Hymn ("Battle Hymn of the Republic") - Lyrics

Social Commentary

1. Tweet ("Smile") - Lyrics / MP3
2. Trader Joe's Tonight ("Strangers in the Night ") - Lyrics / MP3
3. Gaia ("If I Had a Hammer") - Lyrics
4. Grandma Got Infected by That Virus ("Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer") - Lyrics
5. Donny Boy ("Danny Boy") - Lyrics
6. Orange Head ("Mr. Ed") - Lyrics
7. The Zen of Don ("The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song") - Lyrics
8. Donald's Ditty ("I Feel Pretty") - Lyrics
9. No Moore ("Oh Susannah!") - Lyrics
10. What He Tried To Do Back There ("I Saw Her Standing There") - Lyrics
11. Neanderthals ("Send in the Clowns") - Lyrics
12. Selfie ("Alfie") - Lyrics
13. Sheik to Sheik ("Cheek to Cheek") - Lyrics MP3/ YouTube
14. A Gay is No Danger ("Away in a Manger") - Lyrics / MP3
15. The Sad Song of Thad ("Theme Song from 'The Beverly Hillbillies") - Lyrics
16. Brewin' the Coffee at Starbucks ("Killing Me Softly with His Song") - Lyrics MP3
17. A Loan Again Naturally, ("Alone Again, Naturally") - Lyrics
18. With a Little Hemp From My Friends ("With a Little Help From My Friends") - Lyrics /MP3
19. An Inequality ("My Very Good Friend") - Lyrics
20. Trumpster Donald ("Old MacDonald") - Lyrics
21. If You Drive a Monster Car ("When You Wish Upon a Star") - Lyrics
22. She's Staying Home ("She's Leaving Home") - Lyrics / MP3 YouTube
23. I Gotta Go Without Facebook ("I Couldn't Live Without Your Love") - Lyrics
24. They Are Watching You ("Every Breath You Take") - Lyrics
25. Sub-Prime Loan ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") - Lyrics
26. White Christmas ("White Christmas") - Lyrics
27. Happy Days Are Here For All ("Happy Days Are Here Again") - Lyrics
28. Dumb Baby Names ("Sweet Baby James") -Lyrics
29. Turn Off That Damn Cell Phone ("The Long and Winding Road") - Lyrics / MP3
30. I've Just Changed My Face ("I've Just Seen a Face") - Lyrics
31. Porn Free ("Born Free") - Lyrics
32. The Walgreens Song ("If I Fell") - Lyrics /MP3
33. There is a Virus on the Loose ("When There's a Grapefruit in Your Life") - Lyrics
34. Silent Spring ("Silent Night") - Lyrics / MP3
35. An Ode to Brock Turner ("Mickey Mouse March") - Lyrics
36. All My Junk Mail ("All My Loving") -Lyrics
37. Money Guy ("Honey Pie") - Lyrics
38. When Ole Mitt Was Running Bain ("If I Only Had a Brain") -Lyrics
39. The Second Romney Song ("Drive My Car") -Lyrics
40. We're Screwing the World ("Hello Little Girl") - Lyrics
41. Pay Per View ("Paper Moon") - Lyrics / MP3
42. You Won't Be a Goin' ("Original Twangy Country Tune") - Lyrics/ MP3
43. All We Need Are Votes ("All You Need is Love") - Lyrics / MP3 / YouTube
44. Paperless Writer ("Paperback Writer") - Lyrics
45. Mother Nature's Done ("Mother Nature's Son") - Lyrics
46. Gay Waiter ("Day Tripper") - Lyrics
47. Ring Tones ("Meet the Flintstones") - Lyrics
48. Wakin' Up Is Hard To Do ("Breakin' Up is Hard to Do") - Lyrics MP3
49. She Likes You ("She Loves You") -Lyrics
50. Can't Buy Enough ("Can't Buy Me Love") - Lyrics
51. They Pillaged Our Financial Markets ("She Came in Through the Bathroom Window") - Lyrics
52. I'm at the Wal-Mart ("I Am the Walrus") - Lyrics
53. Maybe I'll Sue ("Baby It's You") - Lyrics
54. You Never Gave Me a Login ("You Never Give Me Your Money") - Lyrics

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