Lyrics

G.J. Mendel’s apian stingers, Rachel Carson’s Silent Springers
Babs McClintock might surprise ya, jumping genies Nobel prized her
Hedy Lamarr, channel hopper, Georgie Antheil, spectrum swapper
Biotech-no, locomotion, deeper purple, liquefaction
Darwin, Wallace, Spencer, authors, selection theory, they’re the Chaucers
Becquerel tells radio story with Pierre and Madame Curie
Who can activate the humor? Katz and Axelrod and Euler
Hormone schmormone, Midas function, cure it with adrenotropin
Proud of my pituitary, ain’t a gland that’s ancillary

Earth is a rock, Let the DNA, mold me
See our future in nano, so my doctor told me

Earth is a rock, Let the DNA, mold me
At the end of my rainbow lies an emboldened oldie

A, T, G, C the bits are clicking while the dock is lock a tricking
Friends and omens, calculations, Atossa and the tribulations
Florence Sabin, I behold her, golden force and glacial boulder
Johnny Hill and Johnny Enders, spinning now like Waring blenders
Linus Pauling and Jonas Salk, Rita Levi and Robert Koch
Dr. Joe, the nightly tipper, Doctor Day and Chris the sipper
Richard Smalley, R. B. Fuller, Bucky-Balls are carbon stellar
Miracles in low key places, cultured agars, gender basis
Classroom outlet, Vic McKusick’s, spotted fever, Howard Ricketts

Earth is a rock, Let the DNA
Earth is a rock, Let the DNA

Watson, Wilkins, Franklin, Crick’in, life’s enigma, plot doth thicken
Kornberg’s schooling, Ochoa zyming, mix some, fix some, synthesizing
Arnold, Winter, Smith and Felix, paint me beauty double helix

Jerne, Köhler, Milstein, Caesar, ping me prouder T.H. Rider
Gilbert, Sanger, Berg and Sharpless, Sackler brothers, Oxy crisis
Vaccinations and mutations, RNA and transformations
Mullis and Smith and PCR, chain reactions, exploding stars
Swanson, Cohen and Boyers and tech-no spinning gen-en pre-neurs
J&J and Mayo brothers, AMG and all the others

Earth is a rock, Let the DNA, mold me
See our future in nano, so my doctor told me

Earth is a rock, Let the DNA, mold me
At the end of my rainbow lies an emboldened oldie

Listen, remember, they’re saying your name

Cock it, lock it, Alec freed me, Vicky Wilson got to cleave me
Chromosome, fold me, hold me, rock my gene and bold genome
Johnny King and Walter King and M.C. King and Free Thinking
Charpentier Em and Doudna, Jen, shocking the world like Merc John Glenn
There’s a perfect more than adman, the gentle words of Geo Rathmann
One, two, three, let it be, whisper, whisper and I need sweet CRISPR

Mary-Claire

Lee and Linda and Donnall Thomas, Fred Hutch promise, Nobel brass
Electrophoresis keeps you safe from data specious

California, merger mania, New York City pharm sane ya