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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C There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
G7 And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
C And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
GD7G And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
G7Cm Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
Bb7Eb And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
GmCm And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
Ab7G7 And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
C There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
G7 And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
CG7CG7 And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
CFG7C 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."
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,
GD7G Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
GmCm And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Bb7Eb Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
GmCm And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
Ab7G7 And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
C There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
G7 And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
CG7CG7 And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
CFG7C And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
CG7 These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
CFCG7C And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.