|
|
|
- 390,531 lyrics
- 24,313 artists
|
|
|
Lyrics for In Vino Veritas by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | In Vino Veritas | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 149 | | | | Lyrics: | IN VINO VERITAS
(Dr. H. J. Taylor)
When Science led me by the hand right up her
garden path, Sir,
They tried to make me understand her Physics, Chem and Math, Sir.
It
came to naught, and all they taught could not have fallen flatter,
Except for this, which gave
me bliss, the liquid state of matter.
cho: And this is plain, as I maintain, since good
old Aristotle
The truth has been most clearly seen reflected in a bottle.
What
always jars in seminars and causes constant panics,
Is all that talk and blackboard chaulk to
inculcate mechanics;
I feel I need a glass of mead, as drunk by ancient druids
And so
thereby exemplify the properties of fluids.
And still today I find no way to handle
apparatus.
For me alone the Great Unknown brings no divine afflatus.
Yet this this I know,
when problems show no hope of resolution,
This glass of mine when filled with wine will give
the right solution.
In Physics I can only make uneducated guesses,
My wooly pate
can't calculate the simplest strains and stresses;
Yet when my head is almost dead with mental
acrobatics,
A pint of ale will never fail to teach me hydrostatics.
To learn the
rules of molecules confounds my best resources,
For Van der Waals gets me in snarls with his
atomic forces.
The parachor, and what it's for, I never dare to mention:
A glass of stout
includes me out of studying surface tension.
Both rho and phee are Greek to me, I find
them most unruly;
I don't see why they satisfy the equation of Bernoulli.
I can't make
sense of turbulence, I merely get to know, Sir,
From half a quart of vintage port the facts of
liquid flow, Sir.
In deep research let others lurch and hunt elusive muons.
For QED
is not for me, with all its quarks and gluons.
Let others gaze at cosmic rays revealed in
sparkling bubbles
A glass of beer will always clear my head, and end my
troubles.
Note: a winner in a contest held by New Scientist
tune: Vicar of
Bray
@parody @drink @science
filename[ VINOVERT
play.exe
VICARBRY
RG
===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY | | | |
 Reddit
|
|
More Unknown Lyrics:
|
|
|
