The gamma song

On April 25th 2006, while studying for a cosmology examination, my friend Shanthanu and I heard the llama song. Subsequently, while considering the relative importance of D Gamma and Gamma-Gamma terms in the einstein tensor for density perturbations in the universe, phonetically pleasing combinations of gammas with other words kept on arising, and we decided to make a Gamma song. And well, here it is:

http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~rsundararaman/GammaSong

And these are in the lyrics, in case you don’t have speakers ;) :

here's a gamma, there's a gamma
and another little gamma,
real gamma, virtua' gamma,
gamma gamma, look!

gamma gamma, Riemann gamma
tangent, Wick rotate-a gamma
gamma gamma, squareroot gamma
gamma gamma, look!

I was once a Tensor,
I lived in a space,
but I never saw the way
the indices were raised
I was just an A-mu,
but that fixed a gauge,
And now listen little child,
to this verbiage

did you ever see a gamma,
miss a gamma, hit a gamma,
gamma's gamma, curve of gamma
gamma gamma, look!

Affine gamma, Dirac gamma,
Chiral gamma, Basu, gamma,
gamma with psi bar, a drama,
gamma gamma, look!

is it all in bold now?
is this all so weird?
is it made of tangent bundle?
h-cross, sigma, beard
Now our song is losing spin,
we've run out of … look!
time for me to retire now,
and become a crook!

27 Responses to “The gamma song”

  1. ajit Says:

    Dudes.. Awesome song!.. Awesome.. Its travelling all over the world now!.. U can expect another 10000 hits in a few days.. Gamma Gamma rocks!!..:)

  2. Shreekrishna Says:

    Hey, what’s this Gamma song version number #(—-) ?? :-) Are there more versions that will be released soon ?? Never knew that the Gamma Song was so recent :) …. Putting hindi cinema to shame eh ? So much of appreciation for the song in like about a week !! Well, this does deserve it, unlike Hindi films…. Bye…

  3. Ravishankar S Says:

    Dude! It is session# … that s a hit count …

  4. Julian Says:

    it has become really famous in the german part of the internet, i like this animation!

  5. The Lackey Says:

    Hahahaha.
    Basu gamma…. whats a basu gamma!! lol
    i’m runnin outa look!

  6. Ravishankar S Says:

    Thanks for the appreciation … I did notice Germany taking over the stats, all of a sudden …

    Basu is a weird physics student at IIT Kanpur. He hates math. It was only fitting that he be drowned in a sea of gammas! Actually, we had made this animation as a joke for the internal IIT newsgroup, everyone there would have got the reference. Never thought the song would spread so far, so fast!

  7. Chai Says:

    Amazing Song Guys, its really Rocks and Rhymes…..Its too Cool feel likehearing it againa nd again.

  8. Gowrishankar.ts Says:

    LOL
    That was funny.What about the song,who sang it?Dont tell me it was you guys.

    Nice one..keep it up!

  9. Ravishankar S Says:

    It was sung by us only, but at a lower speed, and then speeded up to 150% without pitch correction. :)

  10. babsee Says:

    hey guys the gamma song is awesome!
    how did you do the background music?
    i want to do another tribute to the llama song myself,
    but im unable to create the background music.
    could tell me how you did it or even send it to me?
    i’d really appreciate that!

    greets, babs

  11. Gowrishankar.ts Says:

    same as above…even iam lookin for the background music….or is it just beats!

  12. Ravishankar S Says:

    The music was laid out in Rosegarden, and essentially consists of a rather simple single note melody with appropriate chords on the grand-piano patch and a two beat rhythm on the drum-patch. In any case, you can download the “karaoke” for the gamma song ;) from here

  13. Ravishankar S Says:

    The music will sound kind of low-pitched and slow, but sing it to that speed and pitch, and then speed up to >1.5 times the speed (with accompanying change of pitch, eg. if you use Audacity, use Change Speed and not Change Tempo) to get that squeaky effect … :)

  14. Gowrishankar.ts Says:

    wow.
    thanx a lot dude!
    really nice of you!

  15. Shura Says:

    *chuckles* A friend of mine from Colombia pointed this one out to me. Well done, guys, you really made me laugh! :)

  16. priyanka Says:

    hey didn’t understand a word…..except gamma….but had a real good laugh. thank you.

  17. wisemoron Says:

    The song simply rocks. Good one.

  18. Prasanna Venkatesh Says:

    Brilliant :)

  19. sheetal Says:

    hehehe!!!itz super cute!!Gr8 wrk:))got it as a forward from orkut!!it sure is travelling places:))

  20. aswan Says:

    hi

    i cant get the link to the gamma song mp3. could you email it to me, please.

    thanks a lot.

  21. Mukul Says:

    gr8 work dude ihv been hearing abt u since i was in 11th
    u r simply gem :)

  22. Isotropy Says:

    Dude, I took a break from studying field theory and stumbled across this.

    All I have to say is….. Great Work! That was awesome.

  23. Shah Says:

    http://home.iitk.ac.in/~shankars/GammaSong/ link is not working. can you pass me the video of the gamma song

  24. Suo Mynona Says:

    Every time I open the link to the background music, it says that it is unable to find the page.

  25. ssj4Gogeta Says:

    @Suo Mynona: same here. seems like it has been removed. Could you upload it again Ravishankar?

  26. peeing my diaper Says:

    I should notify u about it.

  27. Blah Says:

    How did Loganayagam come into this song ?

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