Song of the Elements

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminium, 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 protractinium and indium and gallium and iodine and thoriun and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium and boran, gadolinium, niobium, iridium and strontium and silicon and silver and samrium 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 caesium 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 sulphur, 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 Harvard and there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.

By TOM LEHRER.