(To the tune of “They Call the Wind Mariah”) / Recording by David Simmons
Get ATPs, bicarbonate,
Ammonia catalyzing
To make carba-mo-yl phosphate
And then start the synthesizing
When joined up with an ornithine
In THE mi-TOE-chon-DREE-a
It turns into a citrulline
When cycling to urea
Urea!
Urea!
They call the stuff urea!
On exit to the cytosol
There’s bonding aspartat-ic
The argininosuccinate
Is produced in this schematic
Bid farewell to a fumarate
Amino panacea
Arises when the arginine
Gets lysed to form urea
Urea!
Urea!
You’ve just made some urea!
The body handles many things
Requiring its attention
Like balancing aminos for
Uremia prevention
So if there’s excess nitrogen
It is a good idea
To rid yourself of surplus by
Producing some urea
Urea!
Urea!
Go out and take a pee, yeah!
Urea!
Urea!
Go out and take a pee, yeah!

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