Just For Fun!
It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium Isn't that interesting? There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
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, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz next period.
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 (inhale)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.
The Elements From -- 'More of Tom Lehrer'
(© 1959, Lehrer Records)
Lyrics by -- Tom Lehrer
Original Music Score by -- Sir Arthur Sullivan