Lyrics - The Body Machine by Various Artists

First
Aired: 1979
Lyrics &
Music by:
Lynn
Ahrens
Performed by:
Bob
Dorough
When you look down the street, what do you see?
The street is overflowing with a lot of machines.
Now
I don't mean the buses, the trucks or cars.
I'm talking about the people,
Yeah, you know who they are.
I'm a machine, you're a machine.
Everybody that you know
You know, they are machines.
To keep your engine running you need energy
For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Now,
I'd be a fool, if
I said that the fuel that
We needed to burn was gasoline,
Because the fuel we use is the stuff called food,
And it puts out the power for our machine.
You make a stop at the filling station,"
Fill 'er up!
One chicken sandwich to go!"
As you start to chew,
Your body does it.
All systems go!
CHEF:
Now that sandwich contains some veryimportant kinds of food energy for your body.
Thechicken gives you protein; bread, carbohydrates;mayonnaise, fat; and the lettuce has vitamins, pluscellulose (or roughage).
Together these things helpkeep your body machine running smoothly.
First the saliva, kind of like a driver"
Move to the rear of the mouth!"
But what it's doing,
Along with teeth chewing,
Is taking food and breaking it down.
Down to the stomach,
The food is pushed, the esophagus does its stuff,
And the stomach starts,
Look at those moving parts,
As the body machine churns up
Gastric juices operate on proteins,
Fats and carbohydrates.
In the stomach they do what they do.
They take out the nutrition and use it for
You.
And the cellulose, in those leaves
You know,
Will control the traffic flow.
Helps the food to move along so the good stays
In,
And the bad gets goin'.
I'm a machine,
You're a machine.
Everybody that
You know
You know they are machines.
To keep
Your engine running
You need energy
For
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Then the small intestine does most of
Your digesting,
By sending all the nutrients
In through the villi,
Which look a little silli
But act as little vents
The blood stream passes; the nutrients it catches
And takes them to the cells
You see,
You use what it delivers,
And it stores some in the liver
For future energv.
I'm a machine,
You're a machine.
Everybody that
You know,
You know, thev are machines.
To keep
Vour engine running
You need energv
For
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
High-powered, revved-up, complicated tune-up,
Fascinating body machine.
Take care of that machine.
You got such a great model there, honey!
Give it the right fuel
High protein, low calorie
Take it out for a spin every day!

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