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.