元素（汤姆·莱勒）
The Elements (Tom Lehrer)

这是一首我老是收到请求要让我唱的歌曲，但我始终不明白为什么。
它仅仅是用吉尔伯特和沙利文的调子唱出来的化学元素的名字而已。
我觉得我唯一唱这首歌的原因是要看看我是否还能唱好它。我会尽力的。
Now, here’s a song I always get requests for, but I can’t understand for the life of me why.
It’s simply the names of the chemical elements set to a Gilbert and Sullivan tune.
I think the only reason I do it is to see if I still can. I’ll try.

有锑、砷、铝、硒
还有氢、氧、氮、铼
和镍、钕、镎、锗
和铁、镅、钌、铀
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium

铕、锆、镥、钒
还有镧、锇、砹、镭
和金镝、铟、镓
和碘、钍、铥、铊
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold protactinium and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

有钇、镱、锕、铷
还有硼、钆、铌、铱
和锶、硅、银、钐
和铋、溴、锂、铍、钡
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium

有钬、氦、铪、铒
还有磷、钫、氟、铽
和锰、汞、钼、镁
镝、钪、铈、铯
还有铅、镨、铂、钚
钯、钷、钾、钋
还有钽、锝、钛、碲
和镉、钙、铬、锔
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium

锎、镄和锫里都有黄金
还有钆、锿、钆
和氩、氪、氖、氡、氙、锌、铑
和氯、碳、钴、铜、钨、锡、钠
There's gold in californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium

这些是唯一几个已经传到了哈佛去的元素
可能还有很多其他的
但只是还没有被发现
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard
And there may be many others
But they haven't been discovered

哦！谢谢你们。
你们可能会对这首歌的一个更老、更早的版本感兴趣。
它是亚里士多德的歌，听起来是这样子的：有大地、空气、火和水。
是的，那时的生活要简单很多。
Oh! Thank you.
You may be interested to know there’s an older, much earlier version of that song
Which is due to Aristotle, and which goes like this: There’s earth and air and fire and water.
Life was much simpler in those days. Yes.