There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium

[NightTrain]

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 and 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, 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 Ha'vard
And there may be many others
But they haven't been discavard

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. Question

How long did it take you to type all of this??

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Danny Kaye?

[NightTrain]

4. Nope! Tom Lehrer.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Ahhh, another Brooklyn genius

I could hear Danny singing that though, it would have been funny.

[Radio_Lady]

6. Danny Kay did it with musical composers (not chemistry)!

I'll try to post the lyrics...

[CanuckAmok]

3. "Vonce der rockets go up who cares how zey come down...

...zat's not my depahrtment", Says Werner von Braun.

[Patsy Stone]

5. I sing this all the time...

Love me some Tom Lehrer! It's also helped me when I need to remember an element. Plus it makes people laugh when I sing it. The only problem is they always make me sing it again.

[shraby]

8. Why do most of them end in ium?

[Patsy Stone]

10. It is...

a suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin or specifically chemical names.

Too much information? :)

[NightTrain]

9. I ache for the touch of your lips, dear

But much more for the touch of your whips, dear.
You can raise welts like nobody else
As we dance to the Masochism Tango!

[CanuckAmok]

11. "My heart is in your hands........yuck!"

[mcscajun]

12. This thread caused me to wander over to Wikipedia...where I found...

a link to a Flash Animation of this tune...backed by Tom Lehrer's singing.

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

[Patsy Stone]

13. Genuflect, Genuflect, Genuflect...

Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff
Ave Maria
Gee it's good to see ya
Gettin' ecstatic and sorta dramatic and
Doin' the Vatican Rag.

[mcscajun]

14. and the ever-timely...Send the Marines

For might makes right,
and till they've seen the light,
they've got to be protected,
all their rights respected,
till somebody we like can be elected.



We only want the world to know
that we support the status quo.
They love us everywhere we go.
So when in doubt,
Send the marines!

[Patsy Stone]

15. LOL! Equally relevant:

National Brotherhood Week

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-Hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear;
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

[CanuckAmok]

16. "Then the guy who's got religion'll tell you if your sin's original...

If it is try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer
2-4-6-8,
Time to trans-substantiate..."

What a lyrical genius that man is!

[Patsy Stone]

17. Amen

And then, he just went away...

I do remember Silent E from the Electric Company like it was yesterday, but really, where the hell is he? Hanging out with Johnny Carson in the "recluse lounge?" :(

[CanuckAmok]

18. he is a recluse...

But there's a great, recent interview with him in "The Tenacity of the Cockroach", a collection of interviews published by The Onion. I got it for my birthday a couple of years ago.

[Patsy Stone]

19. TY, I'll look for it. Love your Avatar, btw... n/t