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[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. ♪

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