Km's genocide

For our microbiology departmental Christmas party our lab made a video that included this song. I am posting it here because I don't want to lose the information.

The song is based on "Carrot Juice is Murder" sung by the Arrogant Worms. I changed the lyrics to microbiology related topics but all the wit is theirs.

Chord strike: D
Verse 1
G                               Em        C             G
Listen up brothers and sisters, come hear my desperate tale

G                           Em     C              D           G
I speak of our friends of nature, trapped in the lab like a jail.

G                           Em             C          G
Bacteria live I oppression, worked in the lab day and night.

G                             Em       C         D           G
The killing of these germs is madness, I say we take up the fight.

D                        G         D                      G
Test tubes are only for murderers, cold room’s a fascist regime.

D                                G              C                 D
Don’t think that they don’t have feelings, just cuz a virus can’t scream.


Chorus
G               D         Em
I’ve heard the screams of bacteria      (scream scream scream)

C                            D
Watching their cell walls be peeled      (having their insides revealed)

G          D               Em
Beated and boiled with no mercy      (releasing their DNA)

C           D          G
How do you think that feels     (bet it hurts really bad)


G         D           Em
Kinetics constitutes murder      (and that’s a real crime)

C                      D
Flasks are prisons for slaves      (let the viruses out)

G            D             Em
It’s time to stop all this research      (it’s dirty as hell)

C             D       G
Let’s call a spade a spade     (is a spade is a spade…)

Verse 2

G                         Em     C                       G
I saw her French Pressing campy, so I beat her black and blue.

G                         Em           C              D       G
If she ever touches that press again, I’ll press her clean in two.

G                Em        C                       G
I’m a political prisoner, trapped in a windowless cage.

G                                Em       C            D          G
Cuz,  I stopped the slaughter of coli, by killing five grads in a rage.

D                          G           D                  G
I told the judge when he sentenced me, this is my finest hour.

D                           G             C                    D
I’d kill those grads again just to save, one – more rho-do-bac-tor.


Chorus
G               D          Em
I’ve heard the screams of bacteria      (scream scream scream)

C                            D
Watching their cell walls be peeled      (having their enzymes revealed)

G           D             Em
Beated and boiled with no mercy      (post docs are murders)

C           D          G
How do you think that feels     (bet it hurts really bad)


G        D           Em
Kinetics constitutes murder      (no more Michaelis)

C                       D
Flasks are prisons for slaves      (SDS is a sin)

G            D             Em
It’s time to stop all this research      (it’s dirty as hell)

C             D       G
Let’s call a spade a spade     (is a spade is a spade…)

Bridge

D                 G
How low as people do we dare stoop

C                      G
Feeding young viruses nothing but goop.

D                     Em
Dump out your germs, uncage your ligases,

C                  D
let bacteria free, don’t test polymerases.


Chorus
G               D          Em
I’ve heard the screams of bacteria      (scream scream scream)

C                            D
Watching their cell walls be peeled      (fates in the test tubes are sealed)

G           D              Em
Beated and boiled with no mercy      (you scientist slob)

C           D          G
How do you think that feels     (set them free from the lab)


G         D           Em
Kinetics constitutes murder      (Km’s genocide)

C                       D
Flasks are prisons for slaves      (yes the flask is a grave)

G             D             Em
It’s time to stop all this research      (take up macrame)

C            D        G
Let’s call a spade a spade     (is a spade is a spade…)


C             D       G
Let’s call a spade a spade