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: Subscribe! MP3: ---------------- DIABETES LINKS: Donate in Canada: Donate in the US: Banting’s discovery: Leonard Thompson: ---------------- A CAPELLA SCIENCE STUFF: Patreon: Facebook: Twitter: 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