My friend Ken Pattengale, one half of the amazing Milk Carton Kids, busted out this cool ukulele tune for my live stage show Brain Candy Live. Tweet me your own version!

By Adam Savage on March 29, 2017 at 4:19 p.m.

For Michael Stevens' and my new stage show Brain Candy Live, I knew that I wanted to sing a song during the show and that I wanted one with which the audience could sing along. My friend Ken Pattengale, one half of the amazing Milk Carton Kids, took all my disparate notes on the show we were writing and busted out this cool ukulele tune. I play this every night and I love it!

Some of you had said you wanted to record your own versions. Do it! The lyrics are below, and here's a video of my singing it at a sound check for reference. (For the chords just watch my hands. It's an easy song to play.)

Just be sure to Tweet me (@donttrythis) a link to your finished version!

INTRO

And now to review

For me and for you

And for US of whom in sciences we trust…

VERSE 1

Smoke's not just smoke

mingling with the air

it's a particular reaction

of particulates in attraction

to other things

to science things

dinosaurs exist

in the plastic toys of kids

made from petroleum

that came from crude oil which then

was just hydrocarbons

stuff decomposing in all of our gardens

even when dinosaurs lived

next to dinosaur gardens

CHORUS

how can our synapses be so happy when they're

starved of all the facts thatmake them fire around real fast inside our brains?

[brains] are made to study microbiology

and physics and astronomy

and motion, in the ocean, in the air, or over there, i do not care

[care] what you study just so long you make a buddy out of

meteors, geology

and matter, dark or light, it doesn't matter

[matter] of fact, to me, there's commonality

for all these things that we sing

are brain, brain, brain, brain

brain candy

VERSE 3

a big blazing fire is the opposite of a plant

it's an exothermic reaction

making heat and light

and CO2 in its action

all from a breath

of what me and what you survive on

[take a big comical breath]

oxygen

now photosynthesis opposes a fire in every instance

it's an endothermic reaction

using heat and light

and CO2 as its passion

and creates the breath

that me and that you survive on

[take a big comical breath]

oxygen

CHORUS

how can our synapses be so happy when they're

starved of all the facts that make them fire around real fast inside our brains?

[brains] are made to study microbiology

and physics and astronomy

and motion, in the ocean, in the air, or over there, i do not care

[care] what you study just so long you make a buddy out of

meteors, geology

and matter, dark or light, it doesn't matter

[matter] of fact, to me, there's commonality

for all these things that we sing

are brain, brain, brain, brain

brain candy