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Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer III (what can I tell ya)
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 11:39:40 EST
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OK, You asked for it.

	THE ELEMENTS
	music bySir Arthur Sullivan
	words arranged by Tom Lehrer

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
and iron, americum, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
 [breathe]
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

[piano: da da da   da da da da da da da da da da de dum]

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, berylium and barium.

[piano]

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus nad francium and flourine an 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,
 [breathe]
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

[piano]

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium,einstienium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tingsten, tin and sodium.


[piano]

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