A Scientific Sea Shanty: Banting's Imparted Years (Stan Rogers parody) | A Capella Science

Hoist a flagon and hearken to this tale of anabolic hormones!
Support A Capella Science: http://patreon.com/acapellascience
Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=acapellascience
MP3: https://timblais.bandcamp.com/track/bantings-imparted-years
—————-
DIABETES LINKS:
Donate in Canada: http://www.diabetes.ca/donate
Donate in the US: https://www.diabetesresearch.org/donate-now
Banting’s discovery: https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/discovery-insulin.html
Leonard Thompson: http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/leonardthompson
—————-
A CAPELLA SCIENCE STUFF:
Patreon: http://patreon.com/acapellascience
Facebook: http://facebook.com/acapellascience
Twitter: http://twitter.com/acapellascience
Bohemian Gravity poster: https://store.dftba.com/products/bohemian-gravity-poster

Follow me @acapellascience on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat!

BANTING’S IMPARTED YEARS
(Music: Barrett’s Privateers by Stan Rogers)

Oh the year was nineteen, ten and eight
And to think I take up sugar now
At eleven years old my fate was rung
By the death o’ me islets of Langerhans

REFRAIN
Nobel them all!
I was lost to cruel disease
When a miracle cure saved mother her son
Dried her tears
Now I’m a croakin’ man but I’ll nevermore fear
The last of Banting’s imparted years

Young Frederick Banting cried aloud
And to think I take up sugar now
Through shelling and fire he scorned his wounds
Til the fallen in battle be dressed and bound

REFRAIN

Diabetes then was a sickening plight
And to think I take up sugar now
We’d down the least that a man could scoff
Til the famine or saccharide capped us off

REFRAIN

The Simcoe doc was a knife by trade
And to think I take up sugar now
When the practice failed he set his jaw
To the treatment of glycosuria

REFRAIN

The pancreas’ form had long been known
And to think I take up sugar now
Islets that curb sugar low or high
And digestive fluid from the acini

REFRAIN

He worked as long I withered and waned
And to think I take up sugar now
Sweating with Best in animal trials
To wring an elixir from the tiny isles

REFRAIN

Then at length on death’s cold mantle I lay
And to think I take up sugar now
The extract was drawn and the hype went in
In the first e’er treatment of insulin

REFRAIN

My vigour returned and in truth I thrived
And to think I take up sugar now
Banting & co shared a Nobel prize
And the work saved north’ard of a million lives

REFRAIN

So here I lay in my twenty-eighth year
And to think I take up sugar now
The pneumonia’s fast in both me lungs
But I want no islets of Langerhans

REFRAIN