Student contest

One of our winning entries....

Who Let the Years Out?

Laura Kelly
Garden City High School, Garden City, NY

I am a sophomore at Garden City High School and a Science Research student. I have a great interest in biology and medicine. I wrote this song because I found this disease strikingly sad, and not widely known. I thought it was important that more people learn of this very sad disease. Therefore, I wrote this song and entered it into this contest as a part of my Science Research program. This song is dedicated to all children who suffer from the thankfully rare, but extremely tragic, human accelerated aging disease called Progeria or Werner's Syndrome.

Who Let the Years Out
(To the tune of "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by the Baha Men)

Intro:
Who let the years out?
{ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}

Chorus:
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}

Verse:
When life was nice, I always was jumpin' {Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo}
And everybody havin' a ball {Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo}
Now I cant read the paper 'specially when the print is small{Yippie Yi Yo}
cant read a paper, cant hear a song,
At some point, it all went wrong.

Chorus:
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}

Rap 1: My knees always ache going up the stairs
Used to run up and down with out a care
Get back off me, disease off me
Get back you disease, let me live longer

Instrumental Chorus:
{ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}
{ow,ow,ow,ow}

Verse: Could I ever jump, could I ever Run??{Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo}
Did I really used to have fun?? {Yippie, Yi, Yo}
Tell the disease "Hey Man, It's part of the Party!" {Yippie Yi, Yo}
But getting out of bedhas become a major task {Yippie, Yi, Yo}
Everything hurts, dont know why you asked.

Chorus:
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}

Chant:
Say, A life is nuttin' if you can't move around. Oh body, let me move around.
A life is nuttin' if you cant move around. Oh, body let me move around.

Rap # 2:
Sitting too long, my back starts to ache
Hurts to garden, and I cant pick up a rake
Just a year ago it seemed everything was okay,
But that seems like a dream, i hurt so much today.

Used to be able to eat anything, all day and night,
Now, if I have pizza, just dont feel right
Used to hit the pillow and fall right asleep,
Now I sit up half the night, counting ugly sheep.

Hearing aids, glasses, dentures and more,
Just getting dressed in the morning, I feel like I'm ( going to war)!!
walking around sometimes I can hardly breathe
Whenever things get exciting, I have to leave.

No one has these problems, none of my friends, none of my peers,
You think they do, because you've been measuring my age in years
Maybe you just say, time passes, eventually it gets late,
But the one thing you should know is , on my next birthday, I'll be eight.

Chorus (5 X's ):
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}
Who let the years out {ow,ow,ow,ow}