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 some day

Perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set

Of circumstances It's simply

The names of the chemical elements

Set to a possibly recognizable

Tune

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

Isn't that interesting

I knew you would

I hope you're all taking notes

Because there's going

Short quiz next period

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 Harvard

And there may be many others

But they haven't been discovered