Saturday, December 29, 2012

The Elements Song

The Elements Song

         C
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
       G7
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
      C
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
     G                            D7              G
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
   G7                                             Cm
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
        Bb7                                                              Eb
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
     G7                                                             Cm
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium, [Breath]
      G#7                                                       G7
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

           C
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
      G7
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
         C                   G7                C              G7
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
       C                             F           G7                   C
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

             C
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
        G7
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
        C
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
     G                                            D  7           G
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
     G7                                                        Cm
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
   Bb7                                                  Eb
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
       G7                                                Cm
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
      G#7                      G7
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

          C              
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
     G7
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
        C           G7            C                G7
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
       C                 F              G7                C
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.


######## Optional verse with new elements up to end of 2012 ##########

     G7                                                                            Cm
Some new ones are still numbers so as not to be too bohrium
            Bb7                                                         Eb
they've also added hassium and dubnium, seaborgium,
       G7                                                Cm
darmstadtium, roentgenium, copernicium, flerovium
      G#7                                                             G7
and lawrencium,  meitnerium, rutherfordium, livermorium

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       C                              G7
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
           C             F               C      G7      C
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.

End: C G7, C G7, C G7, G7 C


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