Good luck!!!
It is easiest to do the Bb7 chord in a power chord
-Monkeyface84 :)
Strumming: Hit the base note and then strum the chord.
Intro: D D A7 A7 D D A7 A7
D
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
A7
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
D
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
A E7 A
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
A7 Dm
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
C7 F
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
Am Dm
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
Bb7 A7
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
D
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
A7
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
D A7 D A7
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
D G A7 D
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tom_lehrer/the_elements_song_crd.html ]
D
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
A7
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
D
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
A E7 A
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
Am Dm
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
C7 F
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Am Dm
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
Bb7 A7
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
D
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
A7
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
D A7 D A7
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
D G A7 D
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
D A7
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
D G D A7 D
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
End: D A7 A7 D G, A7 D
