Black Death vs. Yellow Fever by Tom McFadden Lyrics
Chorus:
Yeah uh huh - you don't want this ish
Black and Yellow…
Bacteria and viruses
Black and Yellow…
Pre - germ theory. Don’t know what this is
We may be microbes but we do it big
[Black Death] Trying to spread inside eukaryotic
Screaming out your lymph nodes: "That's bubonic!"
So get scared when you see a flea on a rat
Black Plague, on my list, Yersinia pestis
[Yellow Fever] Or if you see a mosquito better step back
Yellow Fever – Flavivirus. Got you bleeding out your iris
Verse 1
[Black Death] Uh. Black Death. I know you heard
Europe scared of me. Cuz I killed a 1/3
Couldn’t explain me. Stopped trusting the Church
Killing all the classes - social structures taking turns
[Yellow Fever] When I get inside - I get your blood pouring
No cure for me - don't care what you paid for it
And I'm balling through these colonies
Killed 9% of Philly. Terrorized 'em in their dreams
[Black Death] Hear them doctors talk, but there's nothing they could tell 'em
75 Million, in one century that's how I get 'em
[Yellow Fever] But that was back then. Look who's still around
No cure. Who’s more scary now?
Chorus
Verse 2
[Yellow Fever] I’m all up in the news, this just in
Mosquitoes spread me now because they’re DEET resistant
Antibiotics will tear up you bacteria
But I’m a virus, can’t slow me down with those drugs
[Black Death] Til I’m a super bug – trying to get resistant
Swapping genes until I’m over tetracycline
But Yellow Fever, man, you wouldn’t be acting…
…so hard if everybody had your vaccine
Chorus
Yeah uh huh - you don't want this ish
Black and Yellow…
Bacteria and viruses
Black and Yellow…
Pre - germ theory. Don’t know what this is
We may be microbes but we do it big
[Black Death] Trying to spread inside eukaryotic
Screaming out your lymph nodes: "That's bubonic!"
So get scared when you see a flea on a rat
Black Plague, on my list, Yersinia pestis
[Yellow Fever] Or if you see a mosquito better step back
Yellow Fever – Flavivirus. Got you bleeding out your iris
Verse 1
[Black Death] Uh. Black Death. I know you heard
Europe scared of me. Cuz I killed a 1/3
Couldn’t explain me. Stopped trusting the Church
Killing all the classes - social structures taking turns
[Yellow Fever] When I get inside - I get your blood pouring
No cure for me - don't care what you paid for it
And I'm balling through these colonies
Killed 9% of Philly. Terrorized 'em in their dreams
[Black Death] Hear them doctors talk, but there's nothing they could tell 'em
75 Million, in one century that's how I get 'em
[Yellow Fever] But that was back then. Look who's still around
No cure. Who’s more scary now?
Chorus
Verse 2
[Yellow Fever] I’m all up in the news, this just in
Mosquitoes spread me now because they’re DEET resistant
Antibiotics will tear up you bacteria
But I’m a virus, can’t slow me down with those drugs
[Black Death] Til I’m a super bug – trying to get resistant
Swapping genes until I’m over tetracycline
But Yellow Fever, man, you wouldn’t be acting…
…so hard if everybody had your vaccine
Chorus