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the Elements
Tom Lehrer
Song : G
Intro :
C C G7 G7 C C G7 G7
C
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
G7
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
C
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
G D7 G
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
G7 Cm
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
A#7 D#
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
Gm Cm
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
G#7 G7
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
C
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
G7
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
C G7 C G7
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
C F G7 C
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
C
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
G7
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
C
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
G D7 G
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
Gm Cm
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
A#7 D#
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Gm Cm
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
G#7 G7
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
C
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
G7
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
C G7 C G7
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
C F G7 C
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
C G7
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
C F C G7 C
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
Outro :
C G7 G7 C F
G7 C
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