#62

Pancreas

Title: “Pancreas”

Written: Al Yankovic

Album: Straight Outta Lynwood”

Release: 2006

Style pastiche: Beach Boys (Specifically Pet Sounds and Smile albums)

I got a question right while watching Jeopardy once because of this song. I had never heard of the Islets of Langerhans until this song came along. Weird Al educating us one style pastiche at a time!

Lyrics

Oooh oooh oooh ee-oooh oooh oooh
Ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh-oooh oooh
Oooooh

I’m always thinkin’ ’bout it
I don’t know what I’d do without it
I love, I really love
My pancreas

My spleen just doesn’t matter
Don’t really care about my bladder
But I don’t leave home without
My pancreas

My pancreas is always
There for me
Ahh-oooh

Secreting those enzymes (bap bap bap)
Secreting those hormones too
Metabolizing carbohydrates
Just for me

Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas

Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ooooooh

My pancreas attracts every other
Pancreas in the universe
With a force proportional
To the product of their masses
And inversely proportional
To the distance between them

Woo woo woo woo

Don’tcha you know you gotta
Flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice
Flow, flow, into the deuodenum

Won’tcha
Flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice
Flow, flow, into the deuodenum

Insulin, glucagon
(Won’tcha flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice)
Comin’ from the islets of Langerhans…
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)

Insulin, glucagon
(Won’tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Comin’ from the islets of Langerhans…
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)

Lipase, amylase, and tripsin

They gonna help with our digestion

Lipase, amylase, and tripsin

They gonna help with our digestion

Can’t you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)

Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)

Can’t you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)

Golly-gee I love my pancreas
{They gonna help with our digestion}

Can’t you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)

Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion})

Can’t you see I love my pancreas

Source: Musixmatch