ฟังเพลงThe Elements (Live)

The Elements (Live) (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

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

Now may I have the next slide please