Cifras
A Biologist's St. Patrick's Day Song

Tono: D

Introducción:

                  D                                                             A                            G  
In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven
        Bm                    A  
On March the seventeenth day
D                                                                             A                         G  
I will raise up a beer and I'll raise up a cheer
Bm    A                                 G                            D  
For Saccharomyces cerevisiae
G                                                      D                            A                                      G  
Yes here's to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beasts
G                                         D                              G                         A  
Producing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde
G                                                                 D                                      A                      Bm  
But my friends that isn't all -- it makes ethyl alcohol
G                                                    D                                              A                                    D  
Yes that is what the yeast excretes and that's what we imbibe
Pre-Chorus
G                      D  
Anaerobic isolation
A                      Bm  
Alcoholic fermentation
G         D  
NADH oxidation
A  
Give me a beer
Chorus
G  DA  BmA  
G  DA  
verse 1
D                                                                A         G  
My intestinal wall absorbs that ethanol
Bm                                                                                                         A  
And soon it passes through my blood-brain barrier
D                                                                                                                A                         G  
There's a girl in the next seat who I didn't think that sweet
Bm                                    A                                         G            D  
But after a few drinks I want to marry her
G                                         D                                    A                            G  
I guess it's not surprising, my dopamine is rising
Bm                                                                                      A  
And my glutamate receptors are all shot
G                                 D                                            A            Bm  
I'd surely be bemoaning all the extra serotonin
G              D                                                                      A                                 D  
But my judgment is impaired and my confidence is not
Pre-Chorus
G                         D  
Allosteric modulation
D                              Bm  
No Long Term Potentiation
G                         D  
Hastens my inebriation
A  
Give me a beer
Chorus
G  DA  BmA  
G  DA  
verse 2
D                                                                  A                                    G  
When ethanol is in me, some shows up in my kidneys
Bm                                                                    A  
And inhibits vasopressin by degrees
D                                                                                A                    G  
A decrease in aquaporins hinders water re-absorption
Bm                                    A                    G                 D  
And pretty soon I really have to pee
G                                                            D                         A                    G  
Well my liver breaks it down so my body can rebound
Bm                                                                              A  
By my store of glycogen is soon depleted
G                                                      D                              A                 Bm  
And tomorrow when I'm sober I will also be hungover
G                                                         D                                 A                                              D  
Cause I flushed electrolytes that my nerves and muscles needed
Pre-Chorus
G                    D  
Diuretic activation
A                      Bm  
Urination urination
G                      D  
Urination dehydration
A  
Give me a beer
Chorus
G  DA  BmA  
G  DA