Search results for 'ytterbium'

Ytterbium
Monazite
Euxenite
Grant us, grant us
Ytterbium
Gimme, gimme euxenite
Give us, give us monazite
Nothing rhymes with xenotime
Grant us, grant

The Elements

Tom Lehrer

An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

1959

and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium,

The Elements

Tom Lehrer

Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000

2000

and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium,

And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron,

Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium
Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium
Ytterbium, Lutetium

Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten then we're

handouts like babies at mouth of mother bird
I'm gone get it out the mud until they bury my hearse in dirt
Every day I excavate like searching
For Ytterbium

and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium

Erbium
Thulium
Ytterbium
Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum!
Tungsten Rhenium
Osmium and Iridium
Platinum Gold to cherish
Mercury Thallium don't perish!
Lead

europium, gadolinium
Terbium, dysprosium, holmium

Erbium, thulium, ytterbium
Lutetium, hafnium, tantalum
Tungsten, rhenium, osmium
Iridium, platinum, gold

and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium