Various Artists - The Body Machine Lyrics

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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 very

Important kinds of food energy for your body. the

Chicken gives you protein; bread carbohydrates;

Mayonnaise fat; and the lettuce has vitamins plus

Cellulose (or roughage). together these things help

Keep 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

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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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