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) Danes's daughter April and her classmates sing the song on the bus. Daniel Radcliffe sang "The Elements" on "The Graham Norton Show" in 2010. The Jewish parody group Shlock Rock acknowledges Lehrer and "The Elements" as inspiration for "The Shabbat Song". David Costabile, as Gale, sang along to the song in "Something Beautiful", a season 4 episode of "Better Call Saul" (2018). Cover recordings include Jesse Dangerously on his album "How to Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami", where the song is titled "Tom Lehrer's The Elements". The Elements (song) "The Elements" is a song by musical humorist and