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