The stories behind Whistle While You Tighten Up the Wire

• Music Hall Verve in Whistle While You Tighten Up the Wire — Take B cranks the tempo to a brisk 135 BPM, delivering a vintage British theatrical march complete with bright brass punctuality.
• Keeping Calm with Whistle While You Tighten Up the Wire — When clinical alarms erupt across multiple patient floors, systematic troubleshooting and steady nerves restore order.

Lyrics

The Engineer is on the premises

Alarms were going off upon the 4th and 5th

and 6th A lot of fancy apparatus needing to be fixed

The doctors were a -fluster running round in disarray

Until they heard a whistling coming down the hallway

With a screwdriver tucked behind his cheerful little ear

The biomed technician had arrived to bring the cheer

Just whistle while you tighten up the wire

Never let a little panic set your heart on

fire

A comrade pair is sure to see you through

Step by step, chips in a row, that's the

way the Biomed marches go.

He tightened down a brown screw with an easy little twist

Cleared a phantom error that the staff had somehow missed

Wiped a speck of dust away, set the timer back

Put the little monitor up on the proper track

For sixty seconds on the spot the ward was back at ease

All accomplished calmly as an afternoon breeze

There's no need to shout or kick the chassis on the floor

A cheerful disposition always opens up the door

With a meter in your pocket and a melody in mind

Best companion that a busy hospital can find

Just whistle while you tighten up the wire

Never let a little panic set your heart on fire

A comrade bear is sure to see you through

Step by step, ships in a row

That's the way the

Biomed marches go

Sautéed and off to tea