The international anthem of
the European Histamine Research Society



The anthem is sung to the tune of Polly Waddle Doodle and new lines/verses are added each meeting.


CHORUS: For it´s mine, for it´s mine,

Decarboxylated Histidine.

We´ve extracted you and weighed you.

By the living gut assayed you.

But we´ve yet to find your function - Histamine!


1. We talk of toxicosis / migraine, shock or halitosis

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Trauma, burns and inflammation / headache, pain and constipation,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


2. You give asthmatic wheezes / the allergic sneezes,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Though obscure as yet, the fact is / you´re involved in anaphylaxis,

Singing Histaminosis all the day


3. Since the time of Dale and Barger / your files are longer, larger

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

The control of circulation / then gastric stimulation,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


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4. Mast cells by the dozen / and basophils, your cousin,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

They come and they go / fluctuate to and fro,

Singing Histaminosis all the day


5. We heard a lot of groaning / from the upstart, Serotonin,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Down with 5-hydroxytrypta / and up with good old hista,

Singing Histaminosis all the day


6. Each year we meet in May / to concentrate and play,

Singing Histaminosis all the day

What luck to have such friends / to cater for our trends,

Singing Histaminosis all the day


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7. In nineteen seventy two / to Paris we all flew,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Then Marburg upon Lahn / where Wilfried kept us calm,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


8. Copenhagen as next year / the Mermaid to cheer,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

In nineteen seventy five / Florence kept us alive,

Singing Histaminosis all the day


9. To Paris for the next / to hear a new text,

Singing histaminosis all the day

In nineteen seventy seven / London, it was Heaven,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


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10. Then Lodz with great care / we learned a lot there,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

In nineteen seventy nine / to Stockholm this time

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


11. Then to Budapest we went / with Susan on the scent,

Singing histaminosis all the day.

West Germany again / for Hanover by name,

Singing Histaminosis all the day


12. In nineteen eighty two / to Bled we all flew,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Then Brighton to the fore / with sea breezes by the shore,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


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13. And in nineteen eighty four / back in Florence like before,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Then in Aachen eighty five / Charlemagne became alive,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


14. Then in Odense in Spring / in the Castle we did sing,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

And then Czecho was the next / with our Rado at his best,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


15. G.B. West was then cheered / for the ten years we´d been steered,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

Let us sing this song together / Histamine will last forever,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


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16. And in nineteen eighty nine / it was also fine,

There in Holland for the very first time.

To Kuopio in Finland / to the beautiful, but cold land,

we were watching the Finnish chopping wood.


17. Then to Marburg we returned / ninety one and also learned

that histamine in surgery´s not good.

The next year we did meet again / with Manuel in sunny Spain,

Singing ai, ai and olé all the way.


18. Then with Eddy on the Rhine, we had more beer than wine,

Singing histaminosis all the day.

To Zsuzsanna ninety four / we went back to Danube shore,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


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19. Then with Igor ninety five / and the Volga was alive

And we entered the Russian Golden Ring.

In Antwerpen ninety six / Frans did show us a few tricks,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


20. To Sevilla, once again / we all met in lovely Spain,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

To Agnieszka ninety eight / back in Poland it was great,

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


21. Then to Lyon ninety nine / and Histamin´s still mine

Singing Histaminosis all the day.

New Millenium in Rome / Bruno made us all feel home

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


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22. Pertti took us on a boat / we and Histamine could float

So to Turku we came two thousand one.

Andras called two thousand two / and to Eger did we go

A Hungarian meeting once again.


23. In the year two thousand three / we could lots of tulips see

Now Henk Timmerman was host in Amsterdam.

And once again have we seen / all the fans of histamine

Singing Histaminosis all the day.


24.
To lovely Bled we returned / and then once again we learned

that Histamine still lives two thousand five.

Then to Delphi we all came / and found Histamine the same

with Catherine in Greece two thousand six.


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25.
Returned to Florence the next year / For the third time we were here

And for us Emanuela made the day!

Back to Stockholm that we knew / with a lovely water view

With Anita in the North two thousand eight.


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