Everybody wonders what anesthetists do while the patient is asleep Everybody wonders what we do for three hours while that machine goes beep Everybody reckons we drink coffee and we gossip and we're generally subversive Everybody reckons we do crosswords and Sudoku and we chat up all the nurses But do you really think that's all we do? Well, let me tell you now it isn't true! 'Cause we sometimes check the screen And every now and then we write stuff And if we have to intervene, we inject a bit of white stuff And we offer to alter the lights or the heigth of the bed Or fiddle with the radio, change the CD We even check the patients occasionally... And if they move, we turn up the vapour And then we go back to reading a paper... 'Cause while the patients asleep, we just sit and listen to the beep We just sit and listen to the... Once upon a time I took pride in my job, but now I think it's time to depart 'Cause I just sit here every day and listen to blips of the heart!