I always imagined Tom Lehrer would live forever, or, at the very least, that when he went we'd all go with him. But, alas, it didn't work out that way. So, by way of tribute, here is my attempt at an updated version of The Elements (lyrics, including my additions, below). Thanks for the tunes Tom, and I hope my effort doesn't cause your cadaver to rotate in its crypt.
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, 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 phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium, And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium. 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 sulfur, 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.
Those were the only ones of which the news had come to Ha'vard, There still were many others, but they hadn't been discovered.
Now there's Copernicium and Dubnium and Bohrium, Moscovium Nihonium and also Livermorium Seaborgium and Rutherfordium and Roentgenium Meitnerium and Hassium, Lawrencium, Nobelium
Tennesine, Darmstadtium, Flerovium, Oganesson That's everything I know about unless I have forgotten one
If there's any more then you will see it in the media Or you can check the list that they have got on wikipedia
