paroles de chanson The Elements - Live - 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