Sugar Sugar
To the tune of the same name by The Archies

Glucose
Ah sugar, sugar
You give me energy
For respiration you’re the key.

Glucose
Oh my blood sugar
My pancreas is watching you
It monitors the whole day through.

When things aren’t quite right it’s time to send those hormones out
(Time to send those hormones out)
Flowing with the blood until the liver picks them out
(It’s receptors pick them out).

Oh my!
I sense your level’s too high
I’ve got too much glucose in
Best secrete some insulin.

Oh, no!
I feel your level’s too low
Where has all my glucose gone?
Must secrete some glucagon.

When you’re in excess we store you up as glycogen
(Polymer called glycogen)
When you’re running low we break those long chains down again
(So my levels rise again).

Glucose replies:
Make those long chains from me baby
Come on chain me up now baby
I love living as glycogen
(In the liver)
Make those long chains from me baby
Come on chain me up now baby
But when I’m in demand then maybe
You’ll have to break them down again
(To the bloodstream)
Break ‘em up and send me out baby.