ฟังเพลงThe Elements

The Elements - 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