"The Elements"
lyrics by Tom Lehrer (ca. 1968?),
to the tune of A Modern Major General

There's <C>antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
And <G7>hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and  rhenium
And <C>nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium
And <G>iron, americium, ru<D7>thenium, u<G>ranium
Eu<G7>ropium zirconium, lutetium, va<Cm>nadium
And <Bb7>lanthanum and osmium and astatine and  <Eb>radium
And <G7>gold and protactinium and indium and  <Cm>gallium
And <Ab7>iodine and thorium and thulium and <G7>thallium.

There's <C>ytrium, yterbium, actinium, rubidium
And <G7>boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And <C>strontium and <G7>silicon and <C>silver and  sa<G7>marium
And <C>bismuth, bromine, <F>lithium, be<C>rylli<G7>um, and <C>barium <C> <G7> <C
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There's <C>holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And <G7>phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium
And <C>manganese and mercury, molybdenum,  magnesium
Dys<G>prosium and scandium and <D7>cerium and <G>cesium
And <G7>lead, praeseodymium and platinum,  plu<Cm>tonium
Pal<Bb7>ladium, promethium, potassium, po<Eb>lonium
And <G7>tantalum, technetium, titanium, tel<Cm>lurium
And <Ab7>cadmium and calcium and chromium and <G7>curium

There's <C>sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium
And <G7>also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium
And <C>argon, krypton, <G7>neon, radon, <C>xenon, zinc and <G7>rhodium
And <C>chlorine, carbon, <F>cobalt, copper, <C>tungsten, <G7>tin and <C>sodium
These <C>are the only <G7>ones of which the <C>news has come to <G7>Harvard
And there <C>may be many <F>others, but they <C>haven't <G7>been dis<C>carvard <
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