An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer The lyrics of "The Elements" are a recitation of the names of all the chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It can be found on his albums "Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" as well as "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer". The song is sung to the tune of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from "The Pirates of Penzance". Since that time, 16 more have been discovered. At his concert in Copenhagen (1967), Lehrer admitted, "I like to play
The Elements (song) The Elements (song) "The Elements" is a song by musical humorist and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It was written in 1959 and can be found on his albums "Tom Lehrer in Concert", "More of Tom Lehrer" and "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer". The song is sung to the tune of the Major-General's Song from "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan. The song is also included in the musical revue "Tom Foolery", along with many of Lehrer's other songs.