The Elements (Live)

Lyrics

(Spoken) Actually, I did rather well myself this past christmas, the nicest present I received was a gift certificate, good at any hospital, for a lobotomy. Uh, thoughtful. Now, now if I may digress momentarily from the mainstream of this evening's symposium, I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless, but is something which I picked up during my career as a scientist. This may prove useful to some of you someday, perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances, it's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune (Sung) 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, protactinium, and indium, and gallium And iodine, and thorium, and thulium, and thallium 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 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, and 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 Harvard And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered