"THE ELEMENTS" by Tom Lehrer
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 phosphorous
and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and
mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and
scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium,
platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium,
potassium, polonium
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, cobalt,
carbon, copper,
Tungsten, tin and
sodium.
These are the only
ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there my be
many others but they haven't been discovered.
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