As sung by Tom Lehrer, music from the Major General's Song
from the "Pirates of Penzance" of Gilbert and Sullivan.


                   The Elements
                   --- --------

   There's Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminium, Selenium
   and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium
   Nickel, Neodynium, Neptunium, Germanium
   and Iron, Americium, Ruthenium, Uranium

   Europium, Zirconium, Lutetium, Vanadium
   and Lathanium and Osmium and Astatine and Radium
   Gold and 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

   Isn't that interesting?
   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
   Phosphorus and Francium and Flourine and Terbium
   Manganese, and Mercury, Molybdenum, Magnesium
   Dysprosium, and Scandium, and Cerium and Cesium

   Lead, Praesodynium, Platinum, Plutonium
   Paladium, Promethium, Potassium, Polonium
   Tantalum, Tecnetium, Titanium, Tellurium
   and Cadmium, and Calcium, and Chromium, and Curium

   There's Sulfur, Californium, Fermium, Berkelium
   and also Mendelevium, Einsteinium, Nobelium
   Argon, Krypton, Neon, Radon, Xenon, Zinc, and Rhodium
   and Chlorine, Carbon, Copper, Cobalt, 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 discavard!


Afternote: more elements have been "discavard" since Lehrer
wrote this song. Anyone want to invent a new verse?

       103   Lawrencium
       104   Rutherfordium
       105   Hahnium
       106   Seaborgium
       107   Neilsborium
       108   Hassium
       109   Meitnerium