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From: philipl@azure.UUCP (Philip Lantz)
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Subject: "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer
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Date: Sat, 12-Nov-83 21:46:10 EST
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This is from memory; unfortunately I don't have a copy of "An Evening Wasted".
This includes all the elements up to number 102.  Lawrencium, number 103, was
discovered in 1961.  And now, without further ado,

			The Elements
		     Words By Tom Lehrer
Sung to the tune of "A Modern Major General" by Sir Arthur Sullivan

There's Antimony Arsenic Aluminum Selenium
And Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium
And Nickle Neodymium Neptunium Germanium
And Iron Americium Ruthenium Uranium.

Europium Zirconium Lutetium Vanadium
And Lanthanum and Osmium and Astatine and Radium
And Gold and Protactinium and Indium and Gallium
And Iodine and Thorium and Thulium and Thallium.

(pant)

There's Yttrium Ytterbium Actinium Rubidium
And Boron Gadolinium Niobium Iridium
And Strontium and Silicon and Silver and Samarium
And Bismuth Bromine Lithium Beryllium and Barium.

[Isn't that interesting?]

[I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz
next period.]

There's Holmium and Helium and Hafnium and Erbium
And Phosphorus and Francium and Fluorine and Terbium
And Manganese and Mercury Molybdenum Magnesium
Dysprosium and Scandium and Cerium and Cesium.

And Lead Praeseodymium and Platinum Plutonium
Palladium Promethium Potassium Polonium
And Tantalum Technetium Titanium Tellurium
And Cadmium and Calcium and Chromium and Curium.

There's Sulphur Californium and Fermium Berkelium
And also, Mendelevium Einsteinium Nobelium
And Argon Krypton Neon Radon Xenon Zinc and Rhodium
And Chlorine Carbon Cobalt Copper Tungsten Tin and Sodium.

These are there only ones of which the news has come to Harvard.
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.