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
Tom Lehrer after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while." Many songs are performed (but not by Lehrer) in "That Was The Week That Was" (Radiola LP, 1981) The sheet music of many songs is published in "The Tom Lehrer Song Book" (Crown Publishers Inc., 1954) Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 54-12068 and "Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer: with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle" (Pantheon, 1981, ; Methuen, 1999, ). A second song book, "Tom