Elements Song

Sheldon and Penny are curled up on the sofa watching TV while Leonard is watching things on Youtube.

Leonard turns to Sheldon "I've been looking for a party piece for the end of year party and was thinking about the Elements song. Did you know Harry Potter can sing it all the way through?"

Sheldon nods "Indeed, Daniel Radcliffe has said he's a big fan of Tom Lehrer. I do admire someone who values a fine memory, enjoys science and can defeat Voldemort"

Penny looks interested "What's the song?"

Leonard turns up the volume on his phone;

"Now, if I may digress momentarily from the main stream of this evenings symposium, I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless but which is something I picked up during my career as a

Tist. This may prove useful to somebody some day perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances. It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.

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 and protactinium and indium and gallium,

..."

Sheldon starts humming along.

Penny coughs, looks away blushing furiously then laughs and looks back, catching Sheldon's eye. She remembers this song quite intimately...

Together they chorus "and there may be many others but they have not been dis-car-vered! " at the end and fall about laughing

Leonard looks confused.

Sheldon explains to Penny "Of course, the song was written in 1959 so there are only 102 elements known then. Now there are 118."

Penny smiles "one hundred and eighteen? really?"

"If I had a piano in here I could play along."

Penny bats him on the arm and laughs

He sighs "The trouble is the extra 16 don't rhyme easily. Livermorium and Darmstadtium ?"