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,
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.
Mark my words, if a single element is missing from this lab, I shall invent new forms of pain to make you fools suffer! Now then, where was I? Oh yes.
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.
There’s copernicium, nihonium, hassium, bohrium
Lawrencium seaborgium tennessine, livermorium
Rutherfordium, and dubnium darmstadtium, flerovium
Roentgenium, oganesson meitnerium, moscovium
And those are all the elements
Piled up upon this table
The FuMP
2023-10-31
Artist
Consortium Of Genius
Our cover of Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' takes pains to make several long-overdue and necessary updates to this great song, namely: the addition of the elements discovered since 1959, the addition of loud, obnoxious punk beats, and of course, the addition of electric bouzouki courtesy of Bad Beth!
NOW SLAM-DANCE TO TODAY'S LESSON, FOR I COMMAND IT.
Lead vocal...............Dr. Milo T. Pinkerton III
bass.........................Dr. Z
organ.......................Dr. Josh Paxton
rhythm guitar...........Dr. Z
rhythm bouzouki.....Bad Beth
lead guitar...............Filbert W. Snodgrass, Junior Scientist in Training
background vocals..Dr. Winchester, Dr. Z, Filbert Snodgrass, and Computer
drums.....................drumbot
Recorded at C.O.G. Secret Lab, Harahan, LA
produced and mastered by Lewis D'Aubin
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