Music about Biochemistry

This Dr. Kevin Ahern's music (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html) is dedicated to all who have studied or are studying biochemistry. It is an adaptation of the famous American Pie. Here is the link to download the mp3 file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?l0i55h8lrjl70ai

Biochemistry Pie

A long nine weeks ago

I can still remember

How the lectures sometimes made me smile

I pushed myself to study lots

So I could fill my head with thoughts

And then I'd find the effort all worthwhile

But mid-term one, it left me jaded

I worried as exams were graded

Sad news came from Kevin

The average - forty seven

It was so bad I went in shock

I couldn't stand to hear the talk

Of Henderson and Hasselbalch

And bi-o-che-mis-try

So why why biochemistry why

Does percent misrepresent that

My attention is high?

And all the students have a rallying cry

Singin' I will be a studious guy

I will be a studious guy

Did you draw an alanine?

And can you titrate a histidine?

If you know its p-K-a

Now do you believe you'll have it made

If you can pull a decent grade

And can recitation lead me to an 'A'?

Well we learned that protein structure is

A bunch of pleats and helixes

True beauty to behold

Man I dig how proteins fold!

There are seniors in pre-pharmacy

Learning all that chromatography

Gel filtration / HPLC

For bi-o-che-mis-try

I started Singin'

Why why biochemistry why

Must performance be enormous for

My grade to be high?

And all the students have a rallying cry

Singin' I will be a studious guy

I will be a studious guy

Now for ten weeks we've been crammin' in

The fact that nuc-le-i have spin

But that's not all there is to see

There are six enzyme classes from EC

A cat-a-lytic triad three

And a voice that whispers Delta G

Oh, with enzymes there are lots of facts

Like low Kms and high Vmax

Some zymogens break down

If trypsin is around

And while Kevin lectured Milam Hall

His camera captured movies small

Sometimes they had no sound at all

In bi-o-che-mis-try

We were singing

Why why biochemistry why

Should I lament my last percent

If my incentive was high?

And all the students have a rallying cry

Singin' I will be a studious guy

I will be a studious guy

R state, T state metabolic soul mates

Protein forms that we appreciate

ATCase binding siiii----iiiites

They grab a C-T-P upright

The enzyme gets itself uptight

With aspartate on the sidelines out of sight

Then the stage was set for ex-am two

And some of us were feeling blue

I almost lost my nerve

Whoa, 'til I moved up on the curve

'cause my memory to me revealed

The answers that had been concealed

As if the key had been unsealed

For bi-o-che-mis-try

I'm always Singin'

Why why biochemistry why

Must a student be so prudent

Just to qua-a-lify?

And all the students have a rallying cry

Singin' I will be a studious guy

I will be a studious guy

(two stanzas skipped here)

We all pulled down the MP

And memorized the older keys

Then I just smiled and carried on

I went down to the class web site

To download ev-e-ry highlight

But the server said the pages were all gone

And in their rooms, the students stayed

The chemists crammed and the pre-meds prayed

There was no indecision

The end was in our vision

And the section that had made me fret

The questions for the problem set

I nailed them all without a sweat

In bi-o-che-mis-try

3s

And I was singin'

Bye bye biochemistry bye

You can debit all my credit

'Cause my grade is so high

And all the students have a rallying cry

Singin' there'll be a party tonight

There'll be a party tonight

And I was singin'

Bye bye biochemistry bye

You can debit all my credit

'Cause my grade is so high

And all the students have a rallying cry

Singin' there'll be a party tonight