Chords for Tom Lehrer: The Elements (concert live) (1959)
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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the mainstream [Db] of this evening's symposium.
I'd like [N] 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 someday, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.
[C] [G] [C]
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, [G] selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen [C] and rhenium,
and nickel, iodimium, neptunium, [G] germanium, and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
europium, zirconium, [Cm] rutisium, [Bb] vanadium, lanthanum, osmium, [Eb] astatine, [G] radium, and gold,
protactinium, [Cm] anadium, and gallium, [Ab] and iodine, and thorium, and [G] thulium, and thallium.
[C] There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, [G] rubidium, boron, gadolinium, niobium, [C] iridium, strontium,
and silicon, and silver, and samarium, and [F] [C] bislithromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
[F] [C] Isn't that interesting?
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and [G] erbium, and phosphorus, and francium, and fluorine, and [C] terbium,
and manganese, and mercury, and valentine, and magnesium, [G] dysprosium, and scandium, and [G] cerium, and cesium,
and lead, praseodymium, and platinum, [Cm] and [Bb] plutonium, palladium, promethium, potassium, [G] polonium,
and tantalum, tannesium, [Cm] titanium, tellurium, [Ab] and cadmium, and calcium, [G] and chromium, and curium.
[C] There's sulfur, californium, infirmium, berkelium, and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
and [G] arctocrypton, deane, [C] radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, and chlorine, [F] carbon, [C] cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has [G] come to Harvard.
And [F] there may be [G] many others, but they haven't been [C] discovered.
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May I have the next slide, please?
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the mainstream [Db] of this evening's symposium.
I'd like [N] 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 someday, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.
[C] [G] [C]
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, [G] selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen [C] and rhenium,
and nickel, iodimium, neptunium, [G] germanium, and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
europium, zirconium, [Cm] rutisium, [Bb] vanadium, lanthanum, osmium, [Eb] astatine, [G] radium, and gold,
protactinium, [Cm] anadium, and gallium, [Ab] and iodine, and thorium, and [G] thulium, and thallium.
[C] There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, [G] rubidium, boron, gadolinium, niobium, [C] iridium, strontium,
and silicon, and silver, and samarium, and [F] [C] bislithromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
[F] [C] Isn't that interesting?
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and [G] erbium, and phosphorus, and francium, and fluorine, and [C] terbium,
and manganese, and mercury, and valentine, and magnesium, [G] dysprosium, and scandium, and [G] cerium, and cesium,
and lead, praseodymium, and platinum, [Cm] and [Bb] plutonium, palladium, promethium, potassium, [G] polonium,
and tantalum, tannesium, [Cm] titanium, tellurium, [Ab] and cadmium, and calcium, [G] and chromium, and curium.
[C] There's sulfur, californium, infirmium, berkelium, and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
and [G] arctocrypton, deane, [C] radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, and chlorine, [F] carbon, [C] cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has [G] come to Harvard.
And [F] there may be [G] many others, but they haven't been [C] discovered.
[G]
[N]
May I have the next slide, please?
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_ _ the mainstream [Db] of this evening's symposium.
I'd like [N] 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 someday, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
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_ _ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, [G] selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen [C] and rhenium,
and nickel, iodimium, neptunium, [G] germanium, and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
europium, zirconium, [Cm] rutisium, [Bb] vanadium, lanthanum, osmium, [Eb] astatine, [G] radium, and gold,
protactinium, [Cm] anadium, and gallium, [Ab] and iodine, and thorium, and [G] thulium, and thallium. _ _
[C] There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, [G] rubidium, boron, gadolinium, niobium, [C] iridium, strontium,
and silicon, and silver, and samarium, and [F] [C] bislithromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ Isn't that interesting?
_ _ _ _ _ I knew you would.
_ I hope you're all taking notes because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
_ _ _ There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and [G] erbium, and phosphorus, and francium, and fluorine, and [C] terbium,
and manganese, and mercury, and valentine, and magnesium, [G] dysprosium, and scandium, and [G] cerium, and cesium,
and lead, praseodymium, and platinum, [Cm] and [Bb] plutonium, palladium, promethium, potassium, [G] polonium,
and tantalum, tannesium, [Cm] titanium, tellurium, [Ab] and cadmium, and calcium, [G] and chromium, and curium.
_ _ [C] There's sulfur, californium, infirmium, berkelium, and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
and [G] arctocrypton, deane, [C] radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, and chlorine, [F] carbon, [C] cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium. _ _ _
These are the only ones of which the news has [G] come to Harvard.
And [F] there may be [G] many others, but they haven't been [C] discovered.
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_ _ May I have the next slide, please? _
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_ _ the mainstream [Db] of this evening's symposium.
I'd like [N] 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 someday, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, [G] selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen [C] and rhenium,
and nickel, iodimium, neptunium, [G] germanium, and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
europium, zirconium, [Cm] rutisium, [Bb] vanadium, lanthanum, osmium, [Eb] astatine, [G] radium, and gold,
protactinium, [Cm] anadium, and gallium, [Ab] and iodine, and thorium, and [G] thulium, and thallium. _ _
[C] There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, [G] rubidium, boron, gadolinium, niobium, [C] iridium, strontium,
and silicon, and silver, and samarium, and [F] [C] bislithromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ Isn't that interesting?
_ _ _ _ _ I knew you would.
_ I hope you're all taking notes because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
_ _ _ There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and [G] erbium, and phosphorus, and francium, and fluorine, and [C] terbium,
and manganese, and mercury, and valentine, and magnesium, [G] dysprosium, and scandium, and [G] cerium, and cesium,
and lead, praseodymium, and platinum, [Cm] and [Bb] plutonium, palladium, promethium, potassium, [G] polonium,
and tantalum, tannesium, [Cm] titanium, tellurium, [Ab] and cadmium, and calcium, [G] and chromium, and curium.
_ _ [C] There's sulfur, californium, infirmium, berkelium, and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
and [G] arctocrypton, deane, [C] radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, and chlorine, [F] carbon, [C] cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium. _ _ _
These are the only ones of which the news has [G] come to Harvard.
And [F] there may be [G] many others, but they haven't been [C] discovered.
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_ _ May I have the next slide, please? _
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