DESCRIPTION:
From an observable phenotype,
a new condition was described
by John Langdon Down in 1866
who made the first diagnosis.
His nomenclature 'Mongoloid'
is antiquated and now avoided.
Now it's classified in DSM-IV
as a cognitive disorder.

Get down, get down
Hooked on spastics they follow us around.
Get down, get down
Corky didn't mean to set the restaurant on fire.

Despite a disparate collection of symptoms,
the underlying cause is a genetic syndrome.
Where DNA is replicated, in an extra chromosome situated
at the twenty-first pair out of twenty-three
a process known as 'trisomy'.
One in a thousand, say the statistics,
have these typical characteristics.

Get down, get down
Hooked on spastics they follow us around.
Get down, get down
Hooked on spastics, I have an obsession
with genetic over-expression.

Life goes on... and on it goes
We're dedicated to our favourite show!

Get down, get down
I'm a fan of the chromosomally endowed.
Two's company, three's a crowd!