periodic table song

periodic table song

The new periodic table song

The new Periodic Table Song

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Periodic Table Song

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