Sheldon beim Vorsingen des Liedes
The Elements-Song ist ein von Tom Lehrer geschriebenes Lied, dessen Text fast gänzlich aus den chemischen Elementen des Periodensystems besteht. Da es aus dem Jahr 1959 stammt, beinhaltet es nicht alle Elemente, die heute bekannt sind, sondern jene bis Nobelium, dem Element 102. Die Melodie entlehnte Tom Lehrer aus dem Lied I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General das der komischen Oper Die Piraten von Penzance entstammt. Sheldon stimmt dieses Lied in der Folge Die dunkle Seite des Mondes an.
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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, 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 phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and caesium
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 sulphur, 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.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.