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