The Elements-Tom Lehrer

[ti:The Elements] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:The Very Best of Tom Lehrer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.51]Now if I may digress momentarily [00:02.21]From the main stream of this evenings symposium [00:04.60] [00:05.24]I'd like to sing a song [00:08.60]Which is completely pointless [00:09.47] [00:10.24]But which is something [00:12.15]I picked up during my career as atist [00:13.63] [00:14.40]This may prove useful [00:15.45]To somebody some day perhaps [00:16.73] [00:17.75]In a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances [00:19.76] [00:20.41]It's simply the names of the chemical elements [00:22.48]Set to a possibly recognizable tune [00:24.65] [00:34.08]Theres antimony arsenic [00:34.99]Aluminum selenium [00:35.72]And hydrogen and oxygen [00:37.05]And nitrogen and rhenium [00:38.10]And nickel neodymium [00:38.99]Neptunium germanium [00:39.77]And iron americium [00:40.77]Ruthenium uranium [00:41.70]Europium zirconium [00:42.57]Lutetium vanadium [00:43.43]And lanthanum and osmium [00:44.82]And astatine and radium [00:45.87]And gold and protactinium [00:46.90]And indium and gallium [00:48.11]And iodine and thorium [00:49.35]And thulium and thallium [00:50.38] [00:52.41]Theres yttrium ytterbium [00:53.48]Actinium rubidium [00:54.51]And boron gadolinium [00:55.58]Niobium iridium [00:56.64]And strontium and silicon [00:57.63]And silver and samarium [00:58.54]And bismuth bromine [00:59.32]Lithium beryllium and barium [01:00.39] [01:04.09]Isn't that interesting [01:04.85] [01:07.96]I knew you would [01:08.82] [01:10.39]I hope you're all taking notes [01:11.84]Because theres going to be [01:13.00]A short quiz next period [01:14.02] [01:15.19]Theres holmium and helium [01:16.32]And hafnium and erbium [01:17.30]And phosphorus and francium [01:18.24]And fluorine and terbium [01:19.36]And manganese and mercury [01:20.34]Molybdenum magnesium [01:21.09]Dysprosium and scandium [01:22.09]And cerium and cesium [01:23.03]And lead praseodymium [01:24.00]And platinum plutonium [01:25.01]Palladium promethium [01:25.41]Potassium polonium [01:26.87]And tantalum technetium [01:27.90]Titanium tellurium [01:28.54] [01:29.33]And cadmium and calcium [01:30.84]And chromium and curium [01:31.86] [01:33.65]Theres sulfur californium [01:34.82]And fermium berkelium [01:35.82]And also mendelevium [01:36.79]Einsteinium nobelium [01:37.63]And argon krypton neon radon [01:38.93]Xenon zinc and rhodium [01:39.97]And chlorine carbon cobalt [01:40.89]Copper tungsten tin and sodium [01:41.84] [01:44.08]These are the only ones of [01:45.48]Which the news has come to havard [01:47.89]And there may be many others [01:49.04]But they havent been discavard [01:50.48] [01:51.00]The Elements (Live) - Tom Lehrer