Equal Time For Newton and My Friend Lee

EQUAL TIME FOR NEWTON AND MY FRIEND LEE My friend Lee is a cool guy, sees UFOs in the sky; And he’s allowed time at his job in the burger-bar To think where the great secrets of science lie. When flipping patties or mixing secret sauce he sees far. Lee and Newton liked to study falling fruit But Newt did it two hundred years before Lee. Why does he get credit? Let’s examine the root: He’s older than Lee - it’s easy to see That this is reverse ageism. Lee’s ignored cos he’s young. We scientists must stick together, young and old Giving equal credit to heroes as well as heroes-unsung. And sharing names and ideas, complicated and bold. After all he was no great genius, the old apple-gent. Took him years to grasp gravity; took Lee two days. Ok, Newt didn’t have a computer or other equipment But as Lee said, he’d loads of apples to find gravity’s ways. Equality demands that sci-books refer to Lee’s Laws of Motion; Telescopes will be Lee Refractors; forces measured in lees. And there’ll be movie, music and showbiz commotion About Tommy Newton Jones, Newton Marvin, and Jerry Newton Lewis