The Elements (song)

"The Elements" (1959) is a song by Tom Lehrer that recites the names of all the chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It can be found on his albums More Songs by Tom Lehrer and the live album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. The song is sung to the tune of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from The Pirates of Penzance. Here are the opening and closing lines:

Related Topics:
1959 - Tom Lehrer - Chemical element - Nobelium - More Songs by Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer - Sir Arthur Sullivan - Major General's Song - The Pirates of Penzance

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:There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

Related Topics:
Antimony - Arsenic - Aluminum - Selenium

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:And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,

Related Topics:
Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen - Rhenium

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:....

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:And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

Related Topics:
Chlorine - Carbon - Cobalt - Copper - Tungsten - Tin - Sodium

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:These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,

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:And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.

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Indeed, since that time, 14 more have been discovered (or synthesized, technically), and 9 of those have been named. Those 9 are lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium, darmstadtium, and roentgenium.

Related Topics:
Discovered - Lawrencium - Rutherfordium - Dubnium - Seaborgium - Bohrium - Hassium - Meitnerium - Darmstadtium - Roentgenium

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As a note, the final rhyme of "Harvard" and "discovered" is delivered in an exaggerated parody of a Boston accent.

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