Tinman, vulcan, dachshund, stubble

Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
And out comes a dumpy body white eyed male fruit fly

Tudor, lot, smaug, groucho, tribbles, limo, daeh

You know, it's kinda fun to name a fly these days
Our subject isn't cool, but the names will make your day
We may not have a clue what the gene does at all
But imagination brings us goofy names for all

CHORUS 1:
So activate that big X-ray
This fly's gonna get a major zap today
Gonna tweak alleles, make its genome squeal
Come on, let's play with DNA

CHORUS 2:
I cannot wait to transmutate
This fly is gonna win me a Nobel Prize someday
The world needs less disease
Oh hey hey, does that X-ray sting?

Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
And out comes a dumpy body white eyed male fruit fly

Chromosomes inverted, twisted once or twice
With the ultrabithorax gene duplicated thrice
Deleted thor and spatzle, genes knocked out with every pass
Doublesex is gone, toll and pelle just got trashed

CHORUS 1
CHORUS 2

The fly just grew rabbit ears, he's even got a tongue
The bottom just turned green and he forgot how to run
One wing's in a knot and the other's got a rip
If he starts to fly we all know he's gonna trip

Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Irradiate me baby, uh huh uh huh
Tudor, lot, smaug, groucho, tribbles, limo, daeh

CHORUS 1

I cannot wait to transmutate
This fly is gonna win me a Nobel Prize someday
The world needs less disease
The world needs less disease
This fly might cure world disease
Oh hey hey, does that X-ray sting?