Elements WEIRDNESS

[INTRO] Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls… An homage to the recently departed multi talented polymath… Tom Lehrer. Tom gave the world the breathtaking Elements Song, way back in 1959. Another sixteen new elements have since been discovered or synthetically created. Like an obscure internet meme, these new elements often only last for just a fraction of a second… So here goes… Tom. [Verse1] Now there’s… Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium and Seaborgium… Bohrium, Hassium, and Meitnerium, Causing pandemonium [Verse2] There’s Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, and Copernicium’s quite slick… Nihonium, and Flerovium… Blink and they vanish quick! [Verse3] We also have… Moscovium, and Livermorium… They don’t hang around… With Tennessine, and Oganesson, Unstable, yet profound. [Verse4] They came from labs across the world… In Russia, Germany, Japan and USA… They built these fleeting atoms… using half the planet’s energy… Just to prove their theories… And then watch… them… drift… AWAY! [OUTRO] Well… that’s all we have so far. But I’m sure a few more will come along soon. Maybe then it’ll be your turn, Ev, to create a catchy tune. Young folk and students across the world, faced with a new mystery. Might be singing your song, to help them all learn Chemistry… Why not give it a try…