Elements, by Tom Lehrer

I worked out this new way of formatting the lyrics of this song.
(As the Master said about the song itself:)
This may prove useful to some of you someday perhaps,
in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
— Dave Yost

Elements
by Tom Lehrer

There’s

antimony,

arsenic,

a

luminum,

se

lenium,

and

hydrogen,

and

oxygen,

and

nitrogen,

and

rhenium,

and

nickel,

neo

dymium,

nep

tunium,

ger

manium,

and

iron,

amer

icium,

ru

thenium,

u

ranium,

eu

ropium,

zir

conium,

lu

tetium,

va

nadium,

and

lanthanum,

and

osmium,

and

astatine,

and

radium,

and

gold,

protac

tinium,

and

indium,

and

gallium, (gasp)

and

iodine,

and

thorium,

and

thulium,

and

thallium.

There’s

yttrium,

yt

terbium,

ac

tinium,

ru

bidium,

and

boron,

gado

linium,

ni

obium,

i

ridium,

and

strontium,

and

silicon,

and

silver,

and

samarium,

and

bismuth, bromine,

lithium,

be

ryllium,

and

barium.

There’s

holmium,

and

helium,

and

hafnium,

and

erbium,

and

phosphorus,

and

francium,

and

fluorine,

and

terbium,

and

manganese,

and

mercury,

mo

lybdenum,

mag

nesium,

dys

prosium,

and

scandium,

and

cerium,

and

cesium,

and

lead,

praeseo

dymium,

and

platinum,

plu

tonium,

pal

ladium,

pro

methium,

po

tassium,

po

lonium,

and

tantalum,

tech

netium,

ti

tanium,

tel

lurium, (gasp)

and

cadmium,

and

calcium,

and

chromium,

and

curium.

There’s

sulphur,

cali

fornium,

and

fermium,

ber

kelium,

and

also

mende

levium,

ein

steinium,

no

belium,

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

Hahvard,

and there

may be many

others, but they

haven’t been

dis

cahvard.

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