Five Roads a Current Could Take
A close-harmony quartet turns an electrical safety checklist into an all-vocal counting song, and this take stretches the intro before the words even start.
The stories behind Five Roads a Current Could Take
- Inside the Barbershop Arrangement of "Five Roads a Current Could Take" — A close-harmony quartet turns an electrical safety checklist into an all-vocal counting song, and this take stretches the intro before the words even start.
- The Five Roads a Stray Current Can Take Through a Patient — Electrical safety testing on hospital equipment isn't one measurement, it's five, and a barbershop counting song walks through every one.
Lyrics
One wire five ways it could wander, friend
We test them all before the story ends
One is the leak to the earth below
Two's what the case itself might show
Three's the path straight through the patient's skin
That's the one that's once that starts the worrying
Five roads, a current could take, we test every road before the day's first break.
Earth, case, patient, the wire and the part,
Five little roads and we know each one by heart
Four's a smaller line
The most old folks forget
Tucked on a lead where the sensor's set
Five's the last from the mains right to the tip
We measure them all before the plug takes a trip
Ba -da -da
Five roads a current could take
We test every road before the day's first break
Earth, case, patient, the wire and the part
Five little roads and we know each one by heart.
One, two, three, four, five, count it again.
A bioman's favorite song sung now and then.
No drama, no danger, just a number to chase.
Five roads tested and the patient safe in place.
Five roads a current could take
We'd test every road before the day's first break
Earth, case, patient, the wire and the part
Five little roads and we know each one by heart
Five roads, five, five roads tested every single time.
That's the whole of this little rhyme.
