“Fifty Nifty United States” by Ray Charles. Students cursed my name when I made them memorize it. Then, they thanked me after the geography quiz (“name all fifty United States in alphabetical order”).
Umm.
Does “how you roll a blunt” by Redman count?
Thought not.
J.
Flanders and Swann covered basic thermodynamics in First and Second Law:
“Heat won’t flow from a cooler to a hotter
You can try it if you like but you’d far better notter.”
Frank Black (ex. Pixies) covers the speed of light and astronomical distances in his song That’s an Order:
It takes photon power
And eight minutes of an hour
To make it to our sun
And I know it sounds weird
But it’ll take ya four years
To make the next one
"The Battle of New Orleans" by Jimmy Driftwood and popularized by Johnny Horton comes to mind.
*In 1814 we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson
down the mighty Mississip*
Jimmy Driftwood was a high school principal and a history teacher.
For more information and full lyrics you can go HERE
Well, it’s a limerick rather than a song, but I always remember DDT because of:
Mosquitos are heard to exclaim:
“A chemist has poisoned my brain!”
The cause of their sorrow
Was paradichloro-
Diphenyltrichloroethane.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lighfoot…
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called ‘Gitche Gumee’
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.
It may not be the one you are thinking about,but there is a song that my mom sang when I was a young Shodan -
Don’t remember the second verse completely, but it was all “because God made the stars to shine”, etc.
The addended second verse is:
My first grade Sunday school teacher taught a song about the original twelve apostles -
Thanks, Mrs. Nelson.
Regards,
Shodan
Doh! I mean…very good! You caught my ever-so obvious “mistake.” Just making sure that Animaniacs DID teach us something. Yeah…that’s it.
[sub] stupid three syllable cities…[/sub]
“You forgot Uranus!”
“Gooooodnight, everybody!”
“You forgot Uranus!”
“Gooooodnight, everybody!”
Ok, Mr. Pottymouth. What was that about being a world-famous pianist?