Good Vaccinations
Forget the Beach Boys, the Medicine Men are Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur and Alexander Fleming. Find out how, together, these three men saved more lives than anyone else in history!
PARODY OF
Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys
MUSIC BY
Richie Webb
FROM
Series 7 Episode 10 (Horrid Health)
LYRICS:
I’m Edward Jenner and I was told
Maids who got cowpox once never had another episode.
So I-I-I injected James Phipps with a strain
He didn’t catch smallpox, he was as right as rain.
I gave him inoculation
Despite some protestation
Was the first vaccination (vaccination)
Led to his rehabilitation (inoculation)
Imagine my elation (medication)
At my medical creation (creation)
And so my vaccination (vaccination)
Led to experimentation…
By me! Louis Pasteur, if you’ll please
Thought if that works, surely you can vaccinate against all disease.
So I injected cholera into a hen
Turns out I was right, it lived to lay eggs again.
I gave him immunisation
It was a made-up inoculation
Bit like my vaccination (vaccination)
But with a modification (modification)
Turns out this application (application)
Was a medical transformation (transformation)
It was a combination (vaccination)
Of our scientific dedication.
Alexander Fleming, I invented penicillin
Accidentally - like all the best discoveries.
Him and him and me saved more lives than anyone in history.
End disease that’s killing with vaccinations and penicillin!
We gave you vaccination (vaccination), penicillin and immunisation (immunisation)
We gave you vaccination (vaccination), penicillin and immunisation (vaccination)
We gave you vaccination (vaccination), penicillin and immunisation (immunisation)
We left the world lots cheerier (vaccination) by dealing with bad bacteria.