I sang this for University of Michigan's Biological Station Summer talent show, 2009. It was kind of thrown together last-minute...
Lyrics:
Look at this bug, isn't it neat?
Oh, B. Scholtie, my collection's complete!
Wouldn't you think I'm a girl,
a girl who has everything?
Douglas Lake,
isn't it cold?
How many zebra mussels can one ecosystem hold?
Looking around here you think,
Sure, they've got everything.
They've got canoes and rowboats a'plenty
They've got volleyball and spotted napweed galore.
You want Piping Plovers?
They've got twenty.
But who cares,
no big deal.
I want more.
I want to be where the biologists are,
I want to see, want to see them trappin'
Walking around in those...
What do you call them?
Oh, waders!
Carbon cycles don't get you far
Mini vans are required for field trips, research
going along to the...
What's that word again?
Bog
Out where they swim,
Out where they run,
Out where they study all day in the sun
With ultimate frisbee,
wish I could be
at UMBS
What would I give if I could live in a tin cabin?
What would I pay to spend a day at the streams lab?
Bet you in Ann Arbor,
the weather is warmer
At night they don't need to light a wood stove
But here at bug camp,
we've got stats champs,
ready to crunch data.
And I'm ready to know what PJ knows,
Ask him my questions and get some answers,
What's a dunnock bird?
and why does it...wait, let me check...
cloacal peck?
When's it my turn,
wouldn't I love,
love to be at that camp full of bugs?
With ultimate frisbee,
Wish I could be
At UMBS
8 авг 2009
