The Happy Spinal Cord Wanderer
by Kathy Morgan

(sung to the tune of " The Happy Wanderer", a scout and camp song whose author is unknown)

I love to go a-wandering
Along the spinal tracts
And as I go I love to sing
'bout the fibers in my back
Funiculi, funicula, funiculi, funicula-ha-ha-ha-ha
Funiculi, funicula--the fibers in my back
I wave my hand 'cause signals course
down my corticospinal tract.
Lateral spinothalamic fibers fire--
'cause I just stepped on a tack!
Fasciculi, fascicula, fasciculi, fascicula-ha-ha-ha-ha
Fasciculi, fascicula--the fibers in my back!
I pet a fuzzy kitty cat
its fur is warm and soft
Anterior spinothamic tracts
send touch messages aloft
Laminae, lamina, laminae, lamina-ha-ha-ha-ha
Laminae, lamina--the fibers in my back!
And as I walk, I stay upright
and do not trip or fall
and that's because cerebellelar tracts
tell my cerebellum all
Funiculi, funicula, fasciculi, fascicula-ha-ha-ha-ha
Laminae, lamina--the fibers in my back!
Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die
And may my song the spinal column
help demystify
Funiculi, funicula, fasciculi, fascicula-ha-ha-ha-ha
Laminae, lamina--the fibers in my back!