Pretty Fly (For a Lab Guy)

Rosalie Ierardi - Illinois

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Pretty Fly (For a Lab Guy)!

"Pretty Fly (For a Lab Guy)", by Rosalie Ierardi, 2015

Parody of "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)", by The Offspring, 1998

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

and all the doctors think I'm pretty fly ... for a lab guy

la influenza A hache cinco ene dos (influenza A H5N2)

you've heard about diseases

you've seen them in the news

the microscopic battles that we can't afford to lose

before you pick a treatment

you'd better get it right

you want a diagnosis?

we'll help you win the the fight

you'll be feeling swell / in the VDL

when you're finding viral plaques in microtiter wells

see them replicate / right there on your plate

with DNA / with DNA

finding serovars / running PCRs

just make sure that you don't breathe it or you might come down with SARS

the world needs virology

so hey! hey! use that thinky thing!

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

and all the doctors think I'm pretty fly ... for a lab guy

now when you send your sample / not any will suffice

make sure it's not in fixative and send it in on ice

don't use a lousy freezer / our feelings will be hurt

and if you're in the field / don't drop it in the dirt

you'll be feeling swell / in the VDL

while you search for multinucleated giant cells

it's a wild ride / looking at your slide

when you use FA / you use FA

when the virus grows / you know it glows and glows

then you write up your report and tell your client, "Case is closed!"

the world needs virology

so hey! hey! use that thinky thing!

now if inclusion bodies are what you'd like to see

we'll be on call to read immunohistochemistry

they say we're working too hard

we're stretched too thin

but in this fight you need a microscope to win

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)                                       

la influenza A hache cino ene dos (influenza A H5N2)

you'll be feeling swell / in the VDL

when you're finding viral plaques in microtiter wells

see them replicate / right there on your plate

with DNA / with DNA

finding serovars / running PCRs

you might discover a new serotype that landed here from Mars

the world needs virology

the world loves virology

so let's do some virology

and hey! hey! use that thinky thing!