Tom Lehrer

The Elements by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer (Wikipedia) was a 1960's-era singer-songwriter, satirist, and Harvard mathematics doc-student.

About One and a quarter.

Follow the bouncing ball.

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.

OK. It's impossible. I suspect that he had it written out phonetically. Keep in mind he's playing the piano at the same time.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.

And after stringing all those together to scan and rhyme, the bending of the words at the end is delightful irony.