ARTIST: Tom Lehrer
TITLE: The Elements
Lyrics and Chords
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
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