Biography:
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born 9 April 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.
Before attending college, Lehrer graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945). Those songs later became (in a joking reference to a leading scientific journal, The Physical Review) The Physical Revue.
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Other songs:
- Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
- The Element Song
- The Elements Song
- The Hunting Song
- The Masochism Tango
- Vatican Rag
- We Will All Go Together When We Go
- The Elements (Song)
- A Christmas Carol
- Be Prepared
- Fight Fiercely Harvard
- I Got It From Agnes
- I Hold Your Hand In Mine
- I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
- In Old Mexico
- Irish Ballad
- Lobachevsky
- M L F Lullaby
- Masochism Tango
- My Home Town
- National Brotherhood Week
- Pigeons In The Park
- Pollution
- Send The Marines
- Smut
- So Long Mom
- The Folk Song Army
- The Old Dope Peddler
- The Vatican Rag
- The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be
- The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
- Wernher Von Braun
- Whatever Became Of Hubert
- Whos Next
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And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
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And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
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And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
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Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
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And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
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And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
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There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
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And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
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And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
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And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
"I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period."
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There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
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And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
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And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
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Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
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And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
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Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
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And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
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And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
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There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
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And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
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And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
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And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
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These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
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And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
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