The elements    (video)    (intro)

 

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1. There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

             E

    and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,

            A

    and nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,

           E                              B7           E

    and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium.

 

          E                                            Am

    Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,

           G                                                                C

    and lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,

             E                                                         Am

    and gold and protactinium and indium and gallium - - -

           F                                                          E

    and iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

 

                 A                                              

    There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,

             E

    and boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,

               A                 E                A                   E

    and strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,

            A                          D               E                  A

    and bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

 

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(spoken : ) Isn't that interesting?  I knew you would. 

I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be

a short quiz next period.

 

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2. There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,

               E

    and phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,

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    and manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,

             E                                       B7               E

    dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.

 

 

 

 

 

 

             E                                                         Am

    And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,

          G                                                     C

    palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,

           E                                                   Am

    and tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium  - - -

            F                                                                 E

    and cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

 

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    There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,

            E

    and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,

            A                        E                  A                          E

    and argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,

               A                       D                     E                           A

    and chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

 

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    These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,

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    and there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.

 

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(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Tom Lehrer)