Muscles & Bones
Chorus
When
you nod your head,
Manoeuvre
the cranium,
Or
stamp your feet,
Twenty-six
bones each,
When
you clap your hands,
A
clash of the phalanges,
There’s
a lot going on underneath.
O,
the skin is a fabulous thing to be in,
But
it can’t get round on its own.
Every
action needs a muscle contraction
And
a lot of support from your bones.
Verse 1
Now
the average newborn baby has over 300 bones,
And
then some will fuse together on the way to being totally grown.
So
the average adult human has only 206,
But
there are still enough of them to hold you up
And
do some pretty impressive tricks.
The
longest is the femur, in the thigh is where you’ll find it;
The
strongest is the tibia, and the fibula is behind it.
Oh,
it’s great to know you’re a vertebrate, it’s divine to have a spine,
So
let’s celebrate the fact that our backbone’s stacked
And
give it ten out of nine for design.
Chorus
Verse 2
You’ve
got more than six hundred muscles
And
they always work in pairs.
There
are even very small ones
At
the root of every one of your hairs.
When
you’re sitting down watching telly,
When
you’re sitting on top of the bus,
The
very bottom line
Is
that you’re spending time
Upon
your gluteus maximus.
Your
mum might wag her finger
If
you accidentally vex her,
In
other words,
She’s
exercising a warning digital flexor.
We
depend on muscles and tendons too,
And
it makes you stop and think….
It
takes seventeen to smile,
Forty
three to frown,
And
slightly over one hundred to wink.
Chorus
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