[ti:The Elements (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Elements (Live) - Tom Lehrer [00:16.11]Now if I may digress momentarily [00:22.97]From the mainstream of this [00:24.53]Evening's symposium I'd like to [00:28.09]Sing a song which is completely [00:29.71]Pointless but is something which [00:32.15]I picked up during my career [00:33.12]As a scientist This may prove [00:35.33]Useful to some of you some day [00:36.98]Perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set [00:39.19]Of circumstances It's simply [00:41.12]The names of the chemical elements [00:42.69]Set to a possibly recognizable [00:44.27]Tune [00:54.34]There's antimony arsenic [00:55.12]Aluminum selenium [00:55.73]And hydrogen and oxygen [00:57.25]And nitrogen and rhenium [00:58.17]And nickel neodymium [00:58.89]Neptunium germanium [00:59.61]And iron americium [01:00.85]Ruthenium uranium [01:01.80]Europium zirconium [01:02.50]Lutetium vanadium [01:03.41]And lanthanum and osmium [01:05.08]And astatine and radium [01:06.09]And gold protactinium [01:06.67]And indium and gallium [01:08.55]And iodine and thorium [01:09.56]And thulium and thallium [01:12.72]There's yttrium ytterbium [01:13.63]Actinium rubidium [01:14.42]And boron gadolinium [01:15.51]Niobium iridium [01:16.37]And strontium and silicon [01:17.98]And silver and samarium [01:18.84]And bismuth bromine lithium [01:19.70]Beryllium and barium [01:24.09]Isn't that interesting [01:27.97]I knew you would [01:30.44]I hope you're all taking notes [01:31.53]Because there's going [01:32.04]To be a short quiz next period [01:35.27]There's holmium and helium [01:36.37]And hafnium and erbium [01:37.39]And phosphorus and francium [01:38.33]And fluorine and terbium [01:39.17]And manganese and mercury [01:40.25]Molybdenum magnesium [01:40.69]Dysprosium and scandium [01:41.65]And cerium and cesium [01:42.57]And lead praseodymium [01:43.65]And platinum plutonium [01:44.56]Palladium promethium [01:45.33]Potassium polonium [01:46.16]And tantalum technetium [01:47.46]Titanium tellurium [01:49.62]And cadmium and calcium [01:50.60]And chromium and curium [01:53.54]There's sulfur californium [01:54.37]And fermium berkelium [01:55.38]And also mendelevium [01:56.27]Einsteinium nobelium [01:57.07]And argon krypton neon radon [01:58.81]Xenon zinc and rhodium [01:59.67]And chlorine carbon cobalt [02:00.50]Copper tungsten tin and sodium [02:03.97]These are the only ones of which [02:05.32]The news has come to Harvard [02:07.72]And there may be many others [02:08.90]But they haven't been discovered