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The New Periodic Table Song -Lyrics

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Last update on: March 13, 2015

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Lyrics for The New Periodic Table Song by AsapSCIENCE

There's Hydrogen and Helium, Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere,

Nitrogen all through the air With Oxygen so you can breathe And Fluorine for your pretty teeth Neon to light up the signs, Sodium for salty times MAGNESIUM, Aluminum Silicon PHOSPHORUS, then Sulfur, Chlorine and Argon POTASSIUM and Calcium so you'll grow strong SCANDIUM Titanium Vanadium and Chromium and MANGANESE This is the Periodic Table, Noble Gas are stable, Halogens and Alkali react aggressively Each period we'll see new outer shells While electrons are added moving to the right Iron is the 26 Then Cobalt, Nickel coins you get Copper Zinc and Gallium Germanium and Arsenic Selenium and Bromine film While Krypton helps light up your room Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium Zirconium NIOBIUM Molybdenum Technetium RUTHENIUM Rhodium Palladium SILVER-WARE then Cadmium and Indium TIN-CANS, Antimony Then Tellurium and Iodine and Xenon and then Caesium and Barium is 56, and this is where the table splits Where lanthanides have just begun Lanthanum Cerium and Praseodymium Neodymium's next to, Promethium then 62, Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium HAFNIUM Tantalum Tungsten then we're on to RHENIUM, Osmium and Iridium PLATINUM, Gold to make you rich till you grow old MERCURY to tell you when it's really cold THALLIUM and Lead then Bismuth for your tummy POLONIUM Astatine would not be yummy RADON Francium will last a little time RADIUM then Actinides at 89 This is the Periodic Table, Noble Gas are stable, Halogens and Alkali react aggressively Each period we'll see new outer shells While electrons are to the right Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium then Meinerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununoctium And then We're Done!!!

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The new periodic table song

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the Tom Lehrer song. For the unfinished album suite by the Beach Boys, see Smile (The Beach Boys album).

The periodic table of the chemical elements

"The Elements" is a song by musical humorist and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It was written in 1959and can be found on his albums Tom Lehrer in Concert, More of Tom Lehrer and An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. The song is sung to the tune of the Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.^[1]

The song is also included in the musical revue Tom Foolery, along with many of Lehrer's other songs.

Contents

  [hide] 

• 1Description of the song
• 2Background
• 3In popular culture
• 4Footnotes
• 5Further reading
• 6External links

Description of the song[edit]

The ordering of elements in the lyrics fits the meter of the song, and includes much alliteration, and thus has little or no relation to the ordering in the periodic table. This can be seen for example in the opening and closing lines:

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
...
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 Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.

Lehrer was a Harvard Mathematics lecturer, and the final rhyme of "Harvard" and "discovered" is delivered in a parody of a Boston accent—a non-rhotic manner—so that the two words rhyme. Lehrer did not normally speak with that accent. Lehrer accompanied himself on the piano while singing the song.

Background[edit]

Lehrer drew the inspiration for "The Elements" from the song "Tchaikovsky and Other Russians", written by Ira Gershwin, which listed fifty Russian composers in a similar manner.^[2]

"The Elements" differs from the "Major-General's Song" in that:

• On some of the live recordings, Lehrer pauses in the middle for spoken interludes, in which he talks to the audience (e.g., "I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period!") while vamping on the piano.
• The verse structure is altered, omitting the third verse of the original as well as all of the "responses" from the play's chorus, and adding an extra two lines at the end of the last verse.
• The song ends with a piano coda (Shave and a Haircut).
• "The Elements" is in the key of C, while the "Major-General's Song" is in E-flat.
• In some live versions, after the song is finished, he may tell the audience of an earlier version, from Aristotle's time, that consists of Air, Fire, Water and Earth, explaining that it was a much simpler time.

In popular culture[edit]

Although "The Elements" is a pastiche of the Major-General's song, it has itself been featured in popular culture. In the episode "Ex-File" of NCIS, Timothy McGee and Abby Sciuto hum the song, which forms a key clue in their case. In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Pants Alternative", a drunk Sheldon Cooper starts to sing the song during his acceptance of an award from his university. In the 2006 episode of Gilmore Girls called "The Real Paul Anka", Luke Danes's daughter April and her classmates sing the song on the bus.^[3] Daniel Radcliffe sang "The Elements" on The Graham Norton Show in 2010.^[4] Other pastiches of "The Major-General's song" in "The Elements" mode include the "Boy Scout Merit Badge Song," which lists all the merit badges of the Boy Scouts of America^[5] and the 2012 webcomic xkcd pastiche "Every Major's Terrible", which lists the faults associated with various undergraduate majors.^[6] The Jewish parody group Shlock Rockacknowledges Lehrer and "The Elements" as inspiration for "The Shabbat Song".^[7]

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I've been meaning to learn and record a cover of this song, but am yet to get around to it. Meanwhile, here's the original and if you want to check out some of my original music, do visit the Dave Bradley Bandcamp page.

The Elements (To be sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's A Modern Major General)

by Tom Lehrer

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, 

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium 

And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, 

And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, 

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium 

And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium 

And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium

And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

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.

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 caesium 

And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, 

Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and 

Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,

And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium 

And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium 

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 Harvard, 

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

You can listen to Lehrer here (3700kb Quicktime Mov file). Search on The Vatican Rag and Masochism Tango for more of Lehrer's wonderful material

Check out a fantastic animated version of The Elementshere. (Someone should do a Peter Kay to this song and get it back in the Top Twenty, that would do wonders for the image of chemistry, I'm sure).

Read about the discoveries of elements 111 and 115, and our historical timeline showing the discovery of the elements.

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The new periodic table song

The new periodic table song

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the Tom Lehrer song. For the unfinished album suite by the Beach Boys, see Smile (The Beach Boys album).

The periodic table of the chemical elements

"The Elements" is a song by musical humorist and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It was written in 1959and can be found on his albums Tom Lehrer in Concert, More of Tom Lehrer and An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. The song is sung to the tune of the Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.^[1]

The song is also included in the musical revue Tom Foolery, along with many of Lehrer's other songs.

Contents

  [hide] 

• 1Description of the song
• 2Background
• 3In popular culture
• 4Footnotes
• 5Further reading
• 6External links

Description of the song[edit]

The ordering of elements in the lyrics fits the meter of the song, and includes much alliteration, and thus has little or no relation to the ordering in the periodic table. This can be seen for example in the opening and closing lines:

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
...
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 Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.

Lehrer was a Harvard Mathematics lecturer, and the final rhyme of "Harvard" and "discovered" is delivered in a parody of a Boston accent—a non-rhotic manner—so that the two words rhyme. Lehrer did not normally speak with that accent. Lehrer accompanied himself on the piano while singing the song.

Background[edit]

Lehrer drew the inspiration for "The Elements" from the song "Tchaikovsky and Other Russians", written by Ira Gershwin, which listed fifty Russian composers in a similar manner.^[2]

"The Elements" differs from the "Major-General's Song" in that:

• On some of the live recordings, Lehrer pauses in the middle for spoken interludes, in which he talks to the audience (e.g., "I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period!") while vamping on the piano.
• The verse structure is altered, omitting the third verse of the original as well as all of the "responses" from the play's chorus, and adding an extra two lines at the end of the last verse.
• The song ends with a piano coda (Shave and a Haircut).
• "The Elements" is in the key of C, while the "Major-General's Song" is in E-flat.
• In some live versions, after the song is finished, he may tell the audience of an earlier version, from Aristotle's time, that consists of Air, Fire, Water and Earth, explaining that it was a much simpler time.

In popular culture[edit]

Although "The Elements" is a pastiche of the Major-General's song, it has itself been featured in popular culture. In the episode "Ex-File" of NCIS, Timothy McGee and Abby Sciuto hum the song, which forms a key clue in their case. In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Pants Alternative", a drunk Sheldon Cooper starts to sing the song during his acceptance of an award from his university. In the 2006 episode of Gilmore Girls called "The Real Paul Anka", Luke Danes's daughter April and her classmates sing the song on the bus.^[3] Daniel Radcliffe sang "The Elements" on The Graham Norton Show in 2010.^[4] Other pastiches of "The Major-General's song" in "The Elements" mode include the "Boy Scout Merit Badge Song," which lists all the merit badges of the Boy Scouts of America^[5] and the 2012 webcomic xkcd pastiche "Every Major's Terrible", which lists the faults associated with various undergraduate majors.^[6] The Jewish parody group Shlock Rockacknowledges Lehrer and "The Elements" as inspiration for "The Shabbat Song".^[7]

The new periodic table song

The new periodic table song

Whether you need to brush up on your chemistry, or just love it when someone sets the Periodic Table to music, AsapSCIENCE's The NEW Periodic Table Song is for you.

This rundown of the elements in numerical order is set to Jacques Offenbach's Infernal Galop, but was otherwise written, produced, and performed by Mitchell Moffit. Here are the lyrics in case you missed anything:

There's Hydrogen and Helium Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere Nitrogen all through the air

With Oxygen so you can breathe And Fluorine for your pretty teeth Neon to light up the signs Sodium for salty times

Magnesium, Aluminium, Silicon Phosphorus, then Sulfur, Chlorine and Argon Potassium, and Calcium so you'll grow strong Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium and Chromium and Manganese

CHORUS This is the Periodic Table Noble gas is stable Halogens and Alkali react agressively Each period will see new outer shells While electrons are added moving to the right

Iron is the 26th Then Cobalt, Nickel coins you get Copper, Zinc and Gallium Germanium and Arsenic

Selenium and Bromine film While Krypton helps light up your room Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium, Zirconium

Niobium, Molybdenum, Technetium Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium Silver-ware then Cadmium and Indium Tin-cans, Antimony then Tellurium and Iodine and Xenon and then Caesium and...

Barium is 56 and this is where the table splits Where Lanthanides have just begun Lanthanum, Cerium and Praseodymium

Neodymium's next too Promethium, then 62's Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium Ytterbium, Lutetium

Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten then we're on to Rhenium, Osmium and Iridium Platinum, Gold to make you rich till you grow old Mercury to tell you when it's really cold

Thallium and Lead then Bismuth for your tummy Polonium, Astatine would not be yummy Radon, Francium will last a little time Radium then Actinides at 89

REPEAT CHORUS

Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium Americium, Curium, Berkelium Californium, Einsteinium, Fermium Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium Bohrium, Hassium then Meitnerium Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium

Ununtrium, Flerovium Ununpentium, Livermorium Ununseptium, Ununoctium And then we're done!!

The new periodic table song

The new periodic table song

The New Periodic Table Song -Lyrics

AsapSCIENCE

Last update on: March 13, 2015

• ORIGINAL
• 12 TranslationsDutch (46%)Suomi (5%)FrenchGerman (20%)Hebrew (25%)Hindi (2%)Italian (2%)Japanese (2%)Russian (4%)SwedishSpanishTurkish (11%)12 TRANSLATIONS

Lyrics for The New Periodic Table Song by AsapSCIENCE

There's Hydrogen and Helium, Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere,

Nitrogen all through the air With Oxygen so you can breathe And Fluorine for your pretty teeth Neon to light up the signs, Sodium for salty times MAGNESIUM, Aluminum Silicon PHOSPHORUS, then Sulfur, Chlorine and Argon POTASSIUM and Calcium so you'll grow strong SCANDIUM Titanium Vanadium and Chromium and MANGANESE This is the Periodic Table, Noble Gas are stable, Halogens and Alkali react aggressively Each period we'll see new outer shells While electrons are added moving to the right Iron is the 26 Then Cobalt, Nickel coins you get Copper Zinc and Gallium Germanium and Arsenic Selenium and Bromine film While Krypton helps light up your room Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium Zirconium NIOBIUM Molybdenum Technetium RUTHENIUM Rhodium Palladium SILVER-WARE then Cadmium and Indium TIN-CANS, Antimony Then Tellurium and Iodine and Xenon and then Caesium and Barium is 56, and this is where the table splits Where lanthanides have just begun Lanthanum Cerium and Praseodymium Neodymium's next to, Promethium then 62, Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium HAFNIUM Tantalum Tungsten then we're on to RHENIUM, Osmium and Iridium PLATINUM, Gold to make you rich till you grow old MERCURY to tell you when it's really cold THALLIUM and Lead then Bismuth for your tummy POLONIUM Astatine would not be yummy RADON Francium will last a little time RADIUM then Actinides at 89 This is the Periodic Table, Noble Gas are stable, Halogens and Alkali react aggressively Each period we'll see new outer shells While electrons are to the right Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium then Meinerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununoctium And then We're Done!!!

The new periodic table song

The new periodic table song


Back in 2013, YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE released one of the catchiest songs ever to help science lovers learn the periodic table. But a lot has changed since then - just last month, four elements earned a permanent spot in the table's seventh row - so they decided it was time to update things and make the song more accurate... resulting in the awesome version above.

The whole thing is set to the tune of the Can-Can by Offenbach, which means you'll never be able to get it out of your head and will probably find yourself humming about chemistry while cooking, showering, and, inexplicably, when you wake up in the middle of the night (seriously, it happened).

That sounds really annoying, but if you need to memorise the periodic table for school, it's actually the best thing ever.

The AsapSCIENCE team also make it easier for you to learn key elements by adding in little rhymes and illustrations about what they're used for - like "bismuth for your tummy" and "fluorine for your pretty teeth". Thankfully, the lyrics are provided in the YouTube description so you can sing (and learn) as you go. 

It starts out pretty easy, but as things speed up towards the end, you get to enjoy the inconveniently named newer elements, like nunpentium, Livermorium, Ununseptium, and Ununoctium.

So watch, learn, and enjoy, because singing sure beats straight repetition in our book. Oh, and if you don't think you can do it, check out this seven-year-old who was able to memorise the original periodic table song. No excuses: