I've been a wild rover, I fear But the end of my roving draws near For I'm clean out of dosh And I drink orange squash 'Cos my insides were ruined by beer
The first valve is pressed firmly down And the music it moves round and round Then it comes out from here In a tone bright and clear (It began as a lip-farting sound)
I've a love of the tenor trombone And in that I don't think I'm alone For some it's The Valve That's their musical salve It's The Slide that puts me in The Zone
Eye of Newt, Wing of Bat, Leg of Frog Anne of Cleves, John o' Groats, Hair of Dog Add lemon 'til sour Then stir for an hour Drink down fast, and then run for the bog
I wrote this following my first reading of Watership Down - many moons ago .. Intuition, sixth sense, second sight Thus the panic began before light An atmosphere foreign In their once homely warren Became reason enough for their flight
Infra Red Spectroscopy From messing with quantums we glean That symmetrical modes can't be seen Asymmetrical change Dipole moments derange And a sharp peak's revealed to the keen.
Raman Spectroscopy A laser makes the bonds vibrate Just like infra red does. But wait! With a polarized glow Only symetric modes show Which chemists find a useful traitBecause when both techniques are used on the same sample it can remove the need for dicking around with bond extinction coefficients and make structural analysis a matter of mental ball-and-stick topography. Result!