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Continuing the science theme:

The Elements Song - Tom Lehrer

"Simply the names of the chemical elements
set to a possibly recognizable tune."

Not sure if I've posted this in the past, but since I'm on a science kick here, I had to include it.

Yay for Tom Lehrer! For my money, the best of the Song Comedians who recorded albums back in the 50's-70's. Not only funny, but musically erudite as well - he could compose in almost any style and have you rolling on the floor laughing. This is a fun and very useful ditty.

Wanna hear something frustrating? I introduced this animation to my nephew Tommy, and damn if the little shit didn't memorize it in three days. I've known this song since high school, over THIRTY YEARS AGO, and have never managed to learn it by heart.

I think I hate him now.

The Elements Song
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 and protactinium and indium and gallium, (gasp)
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, (gasp)
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 Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.