Lyrics The Elements (Live in Concert) - Tom Lehrer
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
some
day,
Perhaps,
in
a
somewhat
bizarre
set
of
circumstances.
It's
simply
The
names
of
the
chemical
elements
set
to
a
possibly
recognizable
Tune.
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
(Spoken)
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
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
Harvard
And
there
may
be
many
others
But
they
haven't
been
discovered
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Album
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer in a Nutshell (In Concert)
date of release
18-08-2013
1 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (Live in Concert)
2 Bright College Days (Live in Concert)
3 A Christmas Carol (Live in Concert)
4 The Elements (Live in Concert)
5 Clementine (Live in Concert)
6 It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier (Live in Concert)
7 She's My Girl (Live in Concert)
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