The Elements (Live)

(Spoken)
Actually, I did rather well myself this past christmas, the nicest present I received was a gift certificate, good at any hospital, for a lobotomy. Uh, thoughtful. Now, now if I may digress momentarily from the mainstream of this evening's symposium, I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless, but is something which I picked up during my career as a scientist. This may prove useful to some of you someday, perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances, it's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune

(Sung)
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 cesium
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