The Elements (song)

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"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 on his albums More Songs by Tom Lehrer and the live album 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. Here are the opening and closing lines:

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,

....

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.

Indeed, since that time, 14 more have been discovered (or synthesized, technically), and 9 of those have been named. Those 9 are lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium, darmstadtium, and roentgenium.

As a note, the final rhyme of "Harvard" and "discovered" is delivered in an exaggerated parody of a Boston accent.

Periodic Table according to Lehrer

This might help you to learn the order of the elements in the song. however, it might not help with memorising the elements in the real periodic table.

Group →	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Period ↓
1	5 H																	51 He
2	47 Li	48 Be											37 B	97 C	7 N	6 O	56 F	91 Ne
3	102 Na	61 Mg											3 Al	42 Si	54 P	82 S	96 Cl	89 Ar
4	72 K	79 Ca	63 Sc	76 Ti	20 V	80 Cr	58 Mn	13 Fe	98 Co	9 Ni	99 Cu	94 Zn	28 Ga	12 Ge	2 As	4 Se	46 Br	90 Kr
5	36 Rb	41 Sr	33 Y	18 Zr	39 Nb	60 Mo	75 Tc	15 Ru	95 Rh	70 Pd	43 Ag	78 Cd	27 In	101 Sn	1 Sb	77 Te	29 I	93 Xe
6	65 Cs	49 Ba	*	52 Hf	74 Ta	100 W	8 Re	22 Os	40 Ir	68 Pt	25 Au	59 Hg	32 Tl	66 Pb	45 Bi	73 Po	23 At	92 Rn
7	55 Fr	24 Ra	**	?? Rf	?? Db	?? Sg	?? Bh	?? Hs	?? Mt	?? Ds	?? Rg	?? Uub	?? Uut	?? Uuq	?? Uup	?? Uuh	?? Uus	?? Uuo

* Lanthanides				21 La	64 Ce	67 Pr	10 Nd	71 Pm	44 Sm	17 Eu	38 Gd	57 Tb	62 Dy	50 Ho	68 Er	31 Tm	34 Yb	19 Lu
Actinides**				35 Ac	30 Th	26 Pa	16 U	11 Np	69 Pu	14 Am	81 Cm	85 Bk	83 Cf	87 Es	84 Fm	86 Md	88 No	?? Lr