Intro In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven On March the seventeenth day I will raise up a beer and I'll raise up a cheer For Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yes here's to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beasts Producing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde But my friends that isn't all -- it makes ethyl alcohol Yes that is what the yeast excretes and that's what we imbibe Pre-Chorus Anaerobic isolation Alcoholic fermentation NADH oxidation Give me a beer Chorus Chorus (Li-Diddly-I): verse 1 My intestinal wall absorbs that ethanol And soon it passes through my blood-brain barrier There's a girl in the next seat who I didn't think that sweet But after a few drinks I want to marry her I guess it's not surprising, my dopamine is rising And my glutamate receptors are all shot I'd surely be bemoaning all the extra serotonin But my judgment is impaired and my confidence is not Pre-Chorus Allosteric modulation No Long Term Potentiation Hastens my inebriation Give me a beer Chorus Chorus (Li-Diddly-I): verse 2 When ethanol is in me, some shows up in my kidneys And inhibits vasopressin by degrees A decrease in aquaporins hinders water re-absorption And pretty soon I really have to pee Well my liver breaks it down so my body can rebound By my store of glycogen is soon depleted And tomorrow when I'm sober I will also be hungover Cause I flushed electrolytes that my nerves and muscles needed Pre-Chorus Diuretic activation Urination urination Urination dehydration Give me a beer Chorus Chorus (Li-Diddly-I):