Here's a song by Eddie from Ohio that has a tangential relationship to Why Does the Sun Shine? by TMBG--sure, it's not terribly educational (although it implies that there are only four moons around Jupiter--there are 39), but it's a darn good song! The a cappella bit in the middle is classic EFO, and there's really no instrumentation other than one (perhaps more than one?) acoustic guitar. When played live, they occasionally preface it with an homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, playing that five-note alien salute on the guitar's harmonics. This song appears as the seventh track on their 1995 anagramatically eponymousalbum I rode fido home.
Lyrics:
It's gonna take eleven cups of
joe,
to get that major
caffeine dose,
sunrise comin' at
warp galactic speed.
The diner's running out of
joe,
and
this quartet I still don't know.
Professor-man, I'll tell you what I need:
Well I know
the planets well,
the
year of the first telescope,
and
Tycho named
that dimple on the moon.
But could you change for me,
names like "
Ganymede",
and
her three friends?
...cause morning's coming soon!
Won't you rename the moons of Jupiter
to Matt, Mark, Luke, and John?
I spin my brain
and can't retain
the real names 'til dawn.
So rename the moons of Jupiter:
the gospel boys won't mind.
I'll do my best
to ace this test
and pass your course this time.
{{a cappella}}
Sometimes we forget that nature itself is one vast miracle,
and our ever-expanding universe is growing and yet still goes on to infinity which to me is completely beyond comprehension.
All I need is a
Scantron sheet,
a
#2 lead and a small
cheat sheet,
not to mention
my own divine intervention...
Please rename the moons of Jupiter
to John, Paul, George, and Ringo?
I spin my brain
and can't retain
this interstellar lingo.
Rename the moons of Jupiter:
the Beatles sure won't mind.
I'll do my best
to ace this test
and pass your course this time.
It's gonna take eleven cups of joe,
to get that major caffeine dose,
sunrise comin' at warp galactic speed.
The diner's running out of joe,
and this quartet I still don't know.
Professor-man, I'll tell you what I need:
Please rename the moons of Jupiter
to George, Tom, Abe and Ted?
I spin my brain
and can't retain
the real names in my head.
Rename the moons of Jupiter:
Rushmore's men won't mind.
I'll do my best
to ace this test
and pass your course this time.
...and in case you were wondering, Jupiter's named moons are, starting with the innermost:
There are several other unnamed satellites, which are numbered by the years of their discoveries: S/1999 J1 (the one satellite of Jupiter discovered in 1999), S/2000 J1-J11, all discovered in 2000, and S/2001 J1-J11, all from 2001. Most of the S/2000 and S/2001 series have large elliptical orbits, but are still counted in the total: 39 moons.
... so you can see why he has trouble remembering them.