Lyrics

MARY SHELLEY
Kray Van Kirk
(c) Midnight Commander Music

The year was 1818, Edgar Poe was only nine
H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, weren't born yet at that time
But a nineteen year old girl sat down, and wrote out her depiction
Of science gone so very wrong
Mary Shelley is the mom
Of modern science fiction

And forty years on down the road, before the Civil War
Eunice Foote set up her lab, and started to explore
How CO2 might play a role in atmospheric heat
Her husband read her work before
A group of science, men galore
Who would not let her speak

Mary Shelley, Eunice Foote, and hundreds more besides
History rewritten
To push them all aside
Writers, artists, scientists
and all the works they wrote
What did Crick and Watson find?
Rosalind Franklin's notes!

The poet Byron had a daughter, Ada was her name
One hundred years before the arc of Turing's genius flamed
She joined her math with poetry, an epic sort of ode
And began a path into the future
towards your phone and your computer
that followed from her code

Then there was Lise Meitner and her partner Otto Hahn
Who bombarded some uranium with a cascade of neutrons
Otto had no clue, why there was barium emission
But Lise Meitner did the math
And mapped out the electron's path
And said "It's nuclear fission!"

Mary Shelley, Eunice Foote, and hundreds more besides
History rewritten
To push them all aside
Writers, artists, scientists
and all the works they wrote
What did Crick and Watson find?
Rosalind Franklin's notes!

Crick and Watson, twisted pair, discovered DNA
But conveniently forgot to mention, that it wasn't they
Who photographed the double helix mapping out our progeny
Rosalind Franklin did the work
They took the credit, published first
Got a Nobel for misogyny!

Mary Shelley, Eunice Foote, and hundreds more besides
History rewritten
To push them all aside
Writers, artists, scientists
and all the works they wrote
What did Crick and Watson find?
Rosalind Franklin's notes!