The Elements (Tom Lehrer)

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• (Posted 2025-10-24)  CPDL #87217: 

Editor: Richard Shakeshaft (submitted 2025-10-24).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 4.3 MB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: This is a new edition based on the publicly available copies provided by Tom Lehrer and incorporating the additional elements discovered since he wrote the lyrics and 2020. It also includes his Aristotelian version of the song. A preview is available, but name and email are required to download complete free licensed copies.

General Information

Title: The Elements
Composer: Tom Lehrer
Lyricist:
Number of voices: (missing)   Voicing: Unknown
Genre: Secular, Unknown

Language: Unknown
Instruments: Unknown

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Original text and translations

English text

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminium, 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 caesium, 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 sulphur, 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.

Copernicium, meitnerium, nihonium, moscovium, rutherfordium,
seaborgium, roentgenium, flerovium, darmstadtium, lawrencium, oganesson,
livermorium, and tennessine and hassium and dubnium and bohrium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
and there may be many others, but they haven't been discarvard.

Lyrics by Aristotle:
There’s earth and air and fire and water.