Muscles and Bones

Muscles & Bones

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When you nod your head,
Manoeuvre the cranium,
Or stamp your feet,
Twenty-six bones each,
When you clap your hands,
A clash of the phalanges,
There’s a lot going on underneath.
O, the skin is a fabulous thing to be in,
But it can’t get round on its own.
Every action needs a muscle contraction
And a lot of support from your bones.

Verse 1
Now the average newborn baby has over 300 bones,
And then some will fuse together on the way to being totally grown.
So the average adult human has only 206,
But there are still enough of them to hold you up
And do some pretty impressive tricks.

The longest is the femur, in the thigh is where you’ll find it;
The strongest is the tibia, and the fibula is behind it.
Oh, it’s great to know you’re a vertebrate, it’s divine to have a spine,
So let’s celebrate the fact that our backbone’s stacked
And give it ten out of nine for design.

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