Anyone heard the Periodic Table song? Who is it by and what's it called?

[Matt KB]

Basically it's an ex Harvard Professor (I think) who does a tour and one of his songs is basically listing every single chemical element really fast and it's funny as hell. But I can't remember what it's called or the name of the bloke.


He has another song about Poisoning Pigeons too.

[mikeh1982]

http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/lyrics.html

Tom Lehrer by the looks of the google results (the link aove has a link to the song, so u can see if its right)
http://wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer/ with lyrics to the pigeon song (along with all his other work)

[Matt KB]

That's the one thanks :D I assumed it'd be called somethign other than the Element Song. Common sense surpasses me once again.

Shame the QT file is poor quality, but I'm sure it's available in other formats elsewhere. Thanks :)

[mikegray]

There's a good live version on "An Evening Wasted With..." if I remember correctly, also the classic "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" and "The Masochism Tango".

[andrewcalderuk]

Oo, I've got an album of his somewhere...