Examples for Modeling Composition of Lyrics for Song
*Sung to the Song of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
DNA is great, an amazing molecule
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for our bodies to have live we need this mighty tool.
If we think about, the way it works all day
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it never leaves the nucleus and this is what it’d say:
Oh I am so great, because of me you live
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proteins, enzymes, hormones too- all these things I give.
But I’m not so great, since I can’t do it all
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I tell the others what to do, my part might seem quite small
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First there’s RNA, to write down my cute code
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polymerase helps, I bid good bye, they leave my dense abode.
R N A heads for a special ribosome
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for a bit the two are joined, they make a happy home.
Now it’s time to translate this genetic note
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better be careful, for it must precisely be a quote.
They need a little help to get this job done right
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quickly transfer RNA comes bouncing into sight
Each tRNA brings a special package
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soon to be part of a protein but for right now it’s an amino acid.
Each triplet is a word that orders what to do
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now tell me would this all get done if it were up to you?!
*Sung to the Song of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
Crick and Watson were the first
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biochemistry can be nursed.
For the two were on the trail
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but their data came by mail.
Then one day in 53
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they knew what the structure be.
Now you wonder how could they
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get the structure of DNA.
They viewed a special photograph
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they did math and they did laugh
Rosalind Franklin took that pic
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which gave the prize to Watson and Crick.