Tom Lehrer - The Elements

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium / D - - - / A7 - - - / D - - - / A - E7 A / / A7 - - Dm / C7 - - F / A7 - - Dm / Bb7 - - A7 - - - - / There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium / D - - - / A7 - - - / D A7 D A7 / D G DA7 D / Isn’t that interesting? [Laughter] I knew you would. I hope you’re all taking notes, because there’s going to be a short quiz next period There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium There’s sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium These are the only ones of which The news has come to Ha’vard And there may be many others But they haven’t been discavard / D A7 / / D G / DA7 D / [Alternate ending:] Lawrencium and Hahnium and lastly Rutherfordium If there are any others, I’m afraid I haven’t heardium