Sometimes, you need to loosen up after spending all day at the Goldschmidt conference. Professor Geoff Gilleaudeau from George Mason University did just that at the Pop-up talk on Wednesday, by taking the famous song from The Beatles’, “Let it be,” and making his own cover song called, “Geochemistry Song.”

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKuacG970M&ab_channel=goldschmidtconf

[Verse 1]

When I find myself in times of trouble

Thermo-Fisher comes to me

Trying to sell me

Mass spectrometry

[Verse 2]

But in my hour of darkness

My Thermo tech is nowhere to be

Oh why did I choose

Geochemistry?

[Verse 3]

And when the broken-hearted students

Crying in the lab agree

There will never be an answer

Geochemistry

[Verse 4]

For though they may be parted

Reviewer 2 will surely make them see

There will never be an answer

Geochemistry

[Chorus]

Chemistry, chemistry

And a bit of mass spectrometry

There are no words of wisdom

Geochemistry

[Verse 5]

And when the night is cloudy

The plasma torch still shines on me

Until there is no argon

Geochemistry

[Verse 6]

I wake up to the sound of music

My sequence file calls to me

But I’ve had 5 cups of coffee

And I’ve really got to pee

[Chorus]

Let me pee, let me pee

Let me pee, let me pee

Oh, why did I choose

Geochemistry?

[Verse 7]

But on a breezy summer night

On the beach of the old city

We raise a glass to

Geochemistry

[Verse 8]

To friends and mates old and new

There is no place I’d rather be

I’m so glad I chose

Geochemistry

[Chorus]

Chemistry, chemistry

And a bit of mass spectrometry

There still might be an answer

Geochemistry

Chemistry, chemistry

And a bit of mass spectrometry

There really could be an answer

Geochemistry

But now I’ve had 6 pints of beer

And I’ve really got to pee [insert high note here]