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The Elements (song) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Elements song) If you'd like to donate to support Wikipedia, please visit the fundraising page. To see how we spent past donations read what we use the money for. "The Elements" (1959) is a song by Tom Lehrer that recites the names of all the chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It can be found as a track on An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer. The song is sung to the tune of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from The Pirates of Penzance.

The song begins: There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium... And ends: ...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. (pronounced discah-vard) Indeed, since that time, 11 more have been discovered, and 8 of those have been named. Those 8 are lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium, and darmstadtium.

[edit] External links More 'Major General' parodies (http://www.lightjunkie.org/parody/piratesidx.html) Guitar chords from alt.guitar.tab newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=r5ielkkkkze.fsf%40gill.maths.keele.ac.uk) Flash animation of song (http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html) ViewsArticleDiscussionEdit this pageHistoryMoveWatch

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