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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.
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.
Now since Tom Lehrer wrote this song way back in 1959
we have discovered several new elements with which to rhyme and I hope with his permission
that I humbly become the first to put the extra elements to another necessary verse.
It's difficult because they chose such stupid, long and silly names, how typical of scientists
that play their nomenclature games and the names keep changing, how deranging, life is
so ephemeral... these scientists are the models of a modern
major general!
Theeere's hassium, lawrencium,
darmstadtium and dubnium,
meitnerium, copernicium, ununpentium, flerovium,
rontgenium, rutherfordium, ununseptium, seaborgium,
ununoctrium, ununtrium,
livermorium 'n bohrium.