HOW TO MEMORIZE THIS IN A WEEK 1. Listen to it 25 times without singing. You can mouth of whisper the lyrics if you want. If you're not doing that, follow along with the words. 2. Once you’ve done Step 1, listen to it another 25 times, now singing with the recording. Make sure to annunciate. 3. If necessary, repeat Step 2. And there you have it!
Alternatively practice one verse until you can repeat it without looking at the words. Go do something else. If you still remember it after an hour or two of doing nothing then move onto the next verse and append it to the next, repeating the process. If not then repeat step 1. Will take maybe 2 or 3 days max to learn the whole thing.
There's earth and fire water air then mud and rock and ash and hair There's skin and salt and blood and snow and gold and diamonds deep below There's silver copper iron veins and sun and moon and clouds and rain
Now there's Copernicium, Roentgenium, Flerovium and Bohrium Darmstadtium, Nihonium, Tennessine and Livermorium Lawrencium, Oganesson and Hassium, Seaborgium Meitnerium, Moscvium, Dubnium and Rutherfordium Considering this song was written in 1959, Lehrers genius remains timeless
@@katyvdb5993 Yeah! They used to be called "ununnilium", "unununium", "ununbium", etc. in accordance with Latin prefixes as placeholders before being renamed. Ironically, harder to pronounce than any of the names that replaced them. Also impressed by the way OP laid them down! It could easily be an extension of the song.
Teacher in 9th grade said she would give us 1pt extra credit on our semester final for every element we memorized.. so I memorized this entire song and got like a 150% on the test... that was 4 years ago and I still remember every word 😂
When I was in middle school my science teacher said that if we sang this in front of the whole class we would get extra credit...So of course, being the straight-A student I was (still am lol) I simply HAD to learn this and sing it. And I did! Looking back I don't even know how I did that, it was very awkward and I had to practice it a lot by slowing it down first...but I did it! If your teacher is asking you to do the same, you can do it! I believe in you!!
Love when shows give little nods to others. Pirates of Penzance is one of my favorite musicals of all time, so when I hear tunes from it in other media it makes me so happy! And since it's a classic you hear references to it everywhere! Especially in kids media, and other musicals
My science teacher: we're going to learn the elements. Pay attention, it will be on your final grades. Teacher: * plays this song once * Teacher: hope you got that. Good luck.
ZeldaGamer747 I want to learn this ssoo bad! Then I could go up to my friends and be like, hahsvdjshdbcisbvudbcjdbcj.(that stands for the song) then I would just walk away.😎
The Kids Club Start with the first few lines and work from there. Then progressively learn more and more, little bits at a time. I can sing it with the lyrics and I have the first verse remembered perfectly.
If you guys think this sounds super impossible to master DONT I thought the same thing and I learned the FIRST verse in under THREE days, but of course it's different with everyone
@zeekyblahIV There are elements that are not in this song because it is old, never did count how many were missing but i'll just take your word for it.
An extra verse for all the completionists out there: There’s hassium, lawrencium, darmstadtium, moscovium, Meitnerium and dubnium, copernecium and flerovium, Seabourgium, rutherfordium, roentgenium, livermorium, Oganesson, tennessine, nihonium and bohrium. You have to sing the third syllable of Tennessine as a weighted apoggiatura.
oh man I've been getting into Lehrer's songs recently, I found this while looking for something else and I must realized my first exposure to him was close to 10 years ago!
If you're watching this, do yourself a favour and check out Daniel Radcliffe singing the whole thing on a BBC talk show. It's pretty impressive that he pulls it off.
When I was in 7th grade my science teacher said we would get extra credit if we memorized and sang this song so I learned it all but never sang it. Now it’s been 15 years and I still sing this song all the time
I sung this in front of my entire class about 4x slower than this and I still got an A in course work, everyone gave me a round of applause and picked me up and walked me out the class, I feel accomplishes
My teacher sang this in Highschool 4 years ago while playing the accordion, it was amazing and even though most of us could only sing along with the lyrics in front of us; we had a great time! I miss you Mr Banks, I hope you’re having a wonderful time teaching still.
I memorized it like 5 or 4 years ago? and I still got it😅 The memories I've experienced because of this🤣. I missed our teacher who introduced this song to us.
I had learned Modern Major General but thought this would be an impossibility. Now I've just finished learning (I'm 68) took me about 3 weeks.- What I wish I could ask Mr. Lehrer is how he decided how to string the elements together? Some elements are recited back to back, others are recited with an "and' before them. They're not recited alphabetically, nor from L-R or top to bottom as they appear on the chart-- really a remarkable feat of lyric writing to fit the music.
These are the ones that are missing: Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicum Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununctium
+Greg Grant This was made in the early 90s. I guess they all have been discovered at the time. As he said in the last verse. "These are the only ones in which news has come to Harvard. And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered."
+KarolinaVideoStarsxx Oh holy crap I was really off. Sorry. I looked it up, and it was 1959. I probably should have researched before I talked. researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-sarunya/The%20Elements%20Song%20by%20Tom%20Lehrer%20(Lyrics).pdf
10 years later this song is used in the TV series Better Call Saul singed by a character gale Better Call Saul is prequel to the infamous TV show Breaking Bad
I learnt this in two weeks by printing out the lyrics and sticking them to my bathroom door. Every time I brushed my teeth I read each new line., 2 minutes of brushing x 2 a day meant I easily learned in 14 days or so.
My teacher has been teaching his song for like 5 years and no one had been able to sing it completely and I am so determined to memorize it in one night
Let's just hope in 2 years when I sit my science exam they ask me to name all the drugs and elements, if not I have spent all my life listening to this and looking weird
Honestly, I'd be able to sing this song if only I could pronounce and remember how to pronounce some of the elements because the spelling is weird and their just hard to say!
If you look up element song lyrics there is a link with url research.ibm or something like that that break the words down into easier parts. They actually arent bad once you look at them closer
One trick I learned early on as a theatre kiddo to make sure I had every word down correctly when first learning a complicated song was: sit and copy the lyrics of the entire song onto a sheet of paper, slowly sounding out each word as you write it. Speak it out loud without any melody. Do that at least five times (15-20 is really the sweet spot) before you even practice singing it, starting a fresh sheet of paper every time. Take a breather between each sheet so you don’t get worn out. This sounds like unnecessarily overdoing something that you can just learn by rehearsing, but when there are words that are complicated to say quickly that easily get you tongue tied and garbled when you’re singing them quickly, or in an overlapping manner with another performer, etc.... But this tool does wonders for cementing the lyrics, pronunciation , order of lines and verses in the back of your mind to the point where you no longer fall off tempo tripping over a five syllable tongue twister when learning a high speed melody because the word isn’t a speed bump for you anymore.
I remember last year during home learning, our science teacher asked the whole class to memorize it, and I saved my class by memorizing and singing it on zoom, and after we went back to school, I got a candy for it:)
This seems like a good song to listen to on repeat for 1 hour while on a drive in New Zealand.
You came from Jet Lag!
I too came from jet lag😂
2 hours
Heck yeahhhhhh though this was my jam as a kid
Definitely
I went to my nephews talent show, and a kid sung this while solving randomly mixed Rubix cubes by the parents
True talent
Did he win?
69 likes xd
Rubik's*
and then the rubiks cubes clapped
HOW TO MEMORIZE THIS IN A WEEK
1. Listen to it 25 times without singing. You can mouth of whisper the lyrics if you want. If you're not doing that, follow along with the words.
2. Once you’ve done Step 1, listen to it another 25 times, now singing with the recording. Make sure to annunciate.
3. If necessary, repeat Step 2.
And there you have it!
THANK YOU
Alternatively practice one verse until you can repeat it without looking at the words. Go do something else. If you still remember it after an hour or two of doing nothing then move onto the next verse and append it to the next, repeating the process. If not then repeat step 1. Will take maybe 2 or 3 days max to learn the whole thing.
Easier said than done
is this how harvard guys have fun?
And then take a few years to learn the piano if you haven’t started already.
Did anyone else notice that his breath control is PHENOMENAL???
no
Right?
I tried this myself (not fully but pseudo-following along) and I am quite impressed by the breath control, or not proud of my own, or both haha
Same. Frank Sinatra was also a champion of this.
Im not trying to be like *that* girl but I didn't find it that hard to sing it? Idk it's probably cuz I'm in band lol 😂
I like the earlier version better:
There’s Earth and Air and Fire and Water
Cal Q. Lyss you forgot aether
Earth contains all of the elements, air is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, fire is not a matter, water is made of hydrogen and oxygen
@@JJean64 r/woooosh
But everything changed when fire attacked
There's earth and fire water air then mud and rock and ash and hair
There's skin and salt and blood and snow and gold and diamonds deep below
There's silver copper iron veins and sun and moon and clouds and rain
Now there's Copernicium, Roentgenium, Flerovium and Bohrium
Darmstadtium, Nihonium, Tennessine and Livermorium
Lawrencium, Oganesson and Hassium, Seaborgium
Meitnerium, Moscvium, Dubnium and Rutherfordium
Considering this song was written in 1959, Lehrers genius remains timeless
Gosh, are there really? I'm very impressed at you knowing, let along setting it down metrically!
Many of which were created in labs, existed for only a fraction of a second, and didn’t have actual names until ~2015
*Seaborgium + Lutetium
@@Jaymac720 half life’s how fun
@@katyvdb5993 Yeah! They used to be called "ununnilium", "unununium", "ununbium", etc. in accordance with Latin prefixes as placeholders before being renamed. Ironically, harder to pronounce than any of the names that replaced them. Also impressed by the way OP laid them down! It could easily be an extension of the song.
Teacher in 9th grade said she would give us 1pt extra credit on our semester final for every element we memorized.. so I memorized this entire song and got like a 150% on the test... that was 4 years ago and I still remember every word 😂
You have completed the 1st step to becoming god
@@littleratman2399 what are the other steps....... asking for a friend of course 😁😁😁
Step 2 memorize every lyric of rap God then get a puppy
@@littleratman2399 yes yes go on 🤔🤔🤔🤔😁😁
Step 3 go to the church and drink holy water then grab a cross and Chuck it into the air you are now a god
I've gotten 3 verses down, just 48 more hours and I'll be done, Billy!
Ansel Tan me too!
Were you successful?
At least you are actually trying
Hey ron
Ansel Tan so far I have gotten 2 onto 3
0:12
0:31
0:45
1:05
The start of each verse for people who learn that way!
Thanks!
0.52
0:52 0:56 1:11
@@samurai2k455 Thank you
Thank you
I remember my 7th grade science teacher sung this whole thing and we were all stunned, still one of my favorite science teachers I've had so far
Omg that was me! JP Winn Chemistry 3rd through 6th periods!
Sure your teacher wasn’t gale
If I sing this in 8th grade science I get a 100 for everything. Wish me luck.
@HaiLong Zhang some of those have been named properly ie ununoctium is now oganesson
Good luck
Well in that case, I'm leading this. I'm only in 6th so I have plenty time!
I got the same deal in 8th but could only get halfway
Fili Emrys Holmes Of Gallifrey year 9
Try nerd list:
- memorised 50 digits of pi *check*
-learnt the elements song *check*
Now what else?
Read the entire Game of Thrones series.
+CheyDoesGaming did that last year 😂
+Samantha Rebecca Middleton oh 😅
I memorized 83 lol
nations of the world song, alphabet aerobics, the other alphabet rap song (dunno it's name xD) ionic rap, 😂😂
Gale you killed it!
I tested those samples Mr. Fring.
rofl, gale is the best!
Better call Saul brought me here so did Big Bang theory
Oh Mr. Fring I wasn't expecting you
There it is. US viewer just learning what a vpn is
When I was in middle school my science teacher said that if we sang this in front of the whole class we would get extra credit...So of course, being the straight-A student I was (still am lol) I simply HAD to learn this and sing it. And I did! Looking back I don't even know how I did that, it was very awkward and I had to practice it a lot by slowing it down first...but I did it! If your teacher is asking you to do the same, you can do it! I believe in you!!
Jim Parsons apparently had a similar experience when learning it in advance of filming an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
@@jessa.the.artist GOOD FOR YOU👍👏👏👏👏😎
The dislikes are from Sam and Toby's alts 😂
😭😹😹
The melody is actually from the song "I am the very model of a modern major General" in "Pirates of Penzance"
Oh shit, I never realised!
"The model of a modern major general" that's from something OTHER THAN HAMILTON. Holy shit I am SHOOKETH!
@@emmiebeee123 Hamilton is apparently full of little references to other musicals like this
i thought i was the only one who noticed this
Love when shows give little nods to others. Pirates of Penzance is one of my favorite musicals of all time, so when I hear tunes from it in other media it makes me so happy!
And since it's a classic you hear references to it everywhere!
Especially in kids media, and other musicals
A PERFECT song for Gale B!!!! Well chosen! He nailed it!
Came looking for a bb fan
Bravo Vince!
Ah, Hahvard!!!
Yes!
Love that university
good university, I'm looking to get into Hahvard after I graduate from highschool
This is about to get a spike in viewership a week from today when Jet Lag hits the air.
howdy
My science teacher: we're going to learn the elements. Pay attention, it will be on your final grades.
Teacher: * plays this song once *
Teacher: hope you got that. Good luck.
Literally lol'd XD
Gale Boetticher. better call saul.
Just watched that episode last night!
Yup
Vravo Bince!
If I sing this in chemistry I get an A
Roomziah same
same
Roomziah I get 20 bonus marks on the exam lol
same with me but I'm only 12....lol
Update: I got an A yass
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
*harry potter
Vix Art Film....
how about Jim Parsons
JANUARY COLNICK!
Skull trooper
Lyrics: spells insanely difficult words
Also lyrics: Hahvard.
Oh, you’re a scientist? Name every element
The scientist:
"He'll never name every element."
"And chlorine, carbon, cobalt copper, tungsten tin and sodium" the ultimate "tung" twister
True
me: learns this song
Sheldon: nervous sweating
Lol 😂
LMAO
I freaking learned this!!!! I feel accomplished
Braden C
NO WAY😫
The Kids Club If you keep doing something over and over it eventually sticks in your head. If you want to learn it, listen to NOTHING else
ZeldaGamer747
I want to learn this ssoo bad! Then I could go up to my friends and be like, hahsvdjshdbcisbvudbcjdbcj.(that stands for the song) then I would just walk away.😎
The Kids Club Start with the first few lines and work from there. Then progressively learn more and more, little bits at a time. I can sing it with the lyrics and I have the first verse remembered perfectly.
ZeldaGamer747
Ok I'll try that, I already know the first 5 words, and I memorized random lines all around the song.🙂
In my science class, the person with the lowest score on the test has to sing this.
*wish me luck*
@xXDiamond19Xx they did, i got like a 90 on it B)
@@gummygutshoe nice
@@gummygutshoe OH MY GOD A FELLOW SCENE KID IN THE WILD FROM THREE YEARS AGO HELLOOOOO
this seems perfect to listen while driving for 2h and 20 mins in new zealand
I feel like patrick from spongebob in the "campfire song song".
HARVARD! ANTIMONY ARSENIC ALUMINUM
Listen to this song at half speed, Tom Lehrer be tripping.
Tristan Campbell yes indeed
My head ache
It gets worse at 25% speed!
I am trying to memorize it and at the start i was getting outsped by half speed
I laugh every time he takes a breath for more air. I admire his dedication.
Oxygen: *exists*
Tom Lehrer from 1:10 to 1:14: "Listen I know I just sung about it but that doesn't mean I believe in it"
Dale from “Better Call Saul” and “Breaking Bad” had to memorize this lol
GALE *
@@RJ12347 I think it was autocorrect lol
Heard this in science.Thought i'd give it a try.And got all the lyric right up to tempo,too.
I think I.l stay with daft hands
Learning this for bonus points in science
blackwatch trash he says at the end of the song that there may be others that haven't been discovered
so you did it right first try? r/thathappened
Thanks Jet Lag for showing me this wonderful song 😂
I bet Sam and Toby were so annoyed with this song by the time they reached their next challenge.
Thanks jetleg for introducing me to this silly song.
If you guys think this sounds super impossible to master DONT I thought the same thing and I learned the FIRST verse in under THREE days, but of course it's different with everyone
@zeekyblahIV There are elements that are not in this song because it is old, never did count how many were missing but i'll just take your word for it.
There are sixteen elements missing
It was written around 1955-56; I don't know how many have been discovered since then.
Gale from Better Call Saul brought me here
Me too.
Sheldon from Big Bang Theory brought me here
A decent science teacher brought me here
billytheripper4 You took Mr. White’s science class too?
Sheldon and gale both brought me here
An extra verse for all the completionists out there:
There’s hassium, lawrencium, darmstadtium, moscovium,
Meitnerium and dubnium, copernecium and flerovium,
Seabourgium, rutherfordium, roentgenium, livermorium,
Oganesson, tennessine, nihonium and bohrium.
You have to sing the third syllable of Tennessine as a weighted apoggiatura.
Sing it as a WHAT
@@th1rtythr334 a held note which resolves to another note.
Ah a blessing to hear this on a drive from wellington to Christchurch NZ
I came here from Jet Lag: The Game, they've listened to this song on repeat for around 2hrs😊
I’m trying my hardest to memorize this and it’s driving me slowly insane 🤗😘
Its not driving me insane its driving my classmayes insane coz they hear it 24/7 thx to me
same
Food manufacturers: we don’t put additives into our products
Also food manufacturers: 0:11
oh man I've been getting into Lehrer's songs recently, I found this while looking for something else and I must realized my first exposure to him was close to 10 years ago!
14 year old girl: Billie Eilish does the best music
Me:
Death Star Trooper lmao
oh hey i remember u getting top comment using the exact comment from the periodic table song by asapscience
I was about to correct you there, but I'm not 14 🤷
I'm get to see people of a higher class in this comment section
don't dis billie
4 years out of high school and this song is still burned into my mind.
this is is from middle school for me, I've been out of school for 2 years now
If you're watching this, do yourself a favour and check out Daniel Radcliffe singing the whole thing on a BBC talk show. It's pretty impressive that he pulls it off.
Brad Simpson well most of it anyway.
Brad Simpson Bet you he used a spell
He can also do alphabet aerobics
LMAO looked this up, gave me a good laugh, hes great at it!
Gale's favourite song
When I was in 7th grade my science teacher said we would get extra credit if we memorized and sang this song so I learned it all but never sang it. Now it’s been 15 years and I still sing this song all the time
That is why I’m watching it my 8th grade teacher says if we memorize it she will make ur grade to a A no matter what grade you have
Got the choice of learning this song by heart or taking a test.... I learned it in two days
Remember when Sam and Toby had to listen to this for 2 hours on repeat?
is it really remembering when the video is only like 2 weeks old?
I sung this in front of my entire class about 4x slower than this and I still got an A in course work, everyone gave me a round of applause and picked me up and walked me out the class, I feel accomplishes
Just Another Person Named Bob Ross oh damn
I've sung this song in my apartment, and now I have this strange box weighing 201.6 pounds filled with sky blue glass-like crystals.... :\
My teacher sang this in Highschool 4 years ago while playing the accordion, it was amazing and even though most of us could only sing along with the lyrics in front of us; we had a great time!
I miss you Mr Banks, I hope you’re having a wonderful time teaching still.
any one her because of Let Lag: The Game?
Here's proof , Adam and Ben hey this Curse card and sam Toby had to listen it for 2 hours and 20 minutes
Science teacher showed us this in middle school, didnt think id come back to the artist for " Masochisim Tango " lmao
Happy birthday Tom Lehrer, 92 today!! Your songs still entertain to this day 🎉🎂
He's 94 and still going eh.
@@chemeister yup just looked it up
I have NCIS to thank for this!
Emily Ann funny you said that. I just finished watching that episode 10 minutes ago on Netflix. Fucking song is now stuck in my head!!!
Christopher Justus the show is so interesting
THANK YOU NCIS!
me too !!! that was a good episode
@@alissaschlesinger1355 It really was! One of my favorites from that season
Perfect extra credit assignment. Byproduct; humiliation 😕
One of my fav songs
Chemistry teachers be like: Yes very nice, now name their atomic weights
I memorized it like 5 or 4 years ago? and I still got it😅
The memories I've experienced because of this🤣. I missed our teacher who introduced this song to us.
The fact that the correct order is:
Hydrogen
Helium
Lithium
Berllyium
Boron
Carbon
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Fluroise
Neon
Sodium
Magneisum
Aluminim
Slilicon
@@DreideliumHydrogen Helium Lithium Berylium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxegen Flourine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminum Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Cholrine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strotium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdemun Technetium Ruthenium Rodium Palladium Silver Cadnium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon Cesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thullium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einstienium Fermium Medelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Borium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadnium Roentgenium Coppernicium Nihonnium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennesine Oganesson *this took forever*
I had learned Modern Major General but thought this would be an impossibility. Now I've just finished learning (I'm 68) took me about 3 weeks.- What I wish I could ask Mr. Lehrer is how he decided how to string the elements together? Some elements are recited back to back, others are recited with an "and' before them. They're not recited alphabetically, nor from L-R or top to bottom as they appear on the chart-- really a remarkable feat of lyric writing to fit the music.
These are the ones that are missing:
Lawrencium
Rutherfordium
Dubnium
Seaborgium
Bohrium
Hassium
Meitnerium
Darmstadtium
Roentgenium
Copernicum
Ununtrium
Flerovium
Ununpentium
Livermorium
Ununseptium
Ununctium
+Greg Grant This was made in the early 90s. I guess they all have been discovered at the time. As he said in the last verse. "These are the only ones in which news has come to Harvard. And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered."
+Colton Byrd Sorry *I guess all elements on that list hadn't been discovered at the time*
+Colton Byrd i think it was late 60 it was made, i saw the performence for 1969 (i believe)
+KarolinaVideoStarsxx Oh holy crap I was really off. Sorry. I looked it up, and it was 1959. I probably should have researched before I talked.
researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-sarunya/The%20Elements%20Song%20by%20Tom%20Lehrer%20(Lyrics).pdf
Colton Byrd It's alright ;) Have a nice day ;)
Who's here from this weeks episode of Jet Lag?
This and the pi song are the only two things I remember from school! They should teach in song, it sticks with you forever
I remember my 10th grade chemistry teacher telling us that if we can sing this entire song we immediately pass the class.
0:11 for those cool kids trying to memorize it
It's 3am, i'm a sixth grader who doesn't need this information yet but u know-
bruh
10 years later this song is used in the TV series Better Call Saul singed by a character gale Better Call Saul is prequel to the infamous TV show Breaking Bad
I learnt this in two weeks by printing out the lyrics and sticking them to my bathroom door. Every time I brushed my teeth I read each new line., 2 minutes of brushing x 2 a day meant I easily learned in 14 days or so.
Favorite song ever
Gale Boetticher brought me here.
Better Call Saul brought me here
I can now make crack
Fun Fact: His last name is literally the German word for "teacher"
My teacher has been teaching his song for like 5 years and no one had been able to sing it completely and I am so determined to memorize it in one night
Not possible
@@Jdawgspark indeed it was not it took me 2 weeks
0:18) Section 1
0:21) Section 2
0:26) Section 3
God, he's turning into Hermione
If Hermione was a muggle
Which is ironic cos Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) can sing this.
Who is here after the latest episode of Jet Lag
I've actually paused the episode on TH-cam just to hear the song.
Here we are
Better Call Saul?
Yes
If I’m able to memorize and sing this in front of my class I get free Wendy’s from the teacher ;)) wish me luck as well
I went a phase of loving this song, and then a phase of hating it. I have gone back to loving it.
Let's just hope in 2 years when I sit my science exam they ask me to name all the drugs and elements, if not I have spent all my life listening to this and looking weird
how did you do on your science exam?
Who’s here after Jet Lag: The Game? 😂
Me :)
Me!!!!
Me ;)
Honestly, I'd be able to sing this song if only I could pronounce and remember how to pronounce some of the elements because the spelling is weird and their just hard to say!
If you look up element song lyrics there is a link with url research.ibm or something like that that break the words down into easier parts. They actually arent bad once you look at them closer
One trick I learned early on as a theatre kiddo to make sure I had every word down correctly when first learning a complicated song was: sit and copy the lyrics of the entire song onto a sheet of paper, slowly sounding out each word as you write it. Speak it out loud without any melody. Do that at least five times (15-20 is really the sweet spot) before you even practice singing it, starting a fresh sheet of paper every time. Take a breather between each sheet so you don’t get worn out.
This sounds like unnecessarily overdoing something that you can just learn by rehearsing, but when there are words that are complicated to say quickly that easily get you tongue tied and garbled when you’re singing them quickly, or in an overlapping manner with another performer, etc....
But this tool does wonders for cementing the lyrics, pronunciation , order of lines and verses in the back of your mind to the point where you no longer fall off tempo tripping over a five syllable tongue twister when learning a high speed melody because the word isn’t a speed bump for you anymore.
America ium is what i though armor eeee see um was
My son was born the day this was posted! This is now one of his favorite videos!
I remember last year during home learning, our science teacher asked the whole class to memorize it, and I saved my class by memorizing and singing it on zoom, and after we went back to school, I got a candy for it:)
WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE LAB WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
I can’t imagine someone playing this song for 2 hours straight on the way to New Zealand…
I went to the New Zealand and hell yes I looped this... To listen during the time I wasnt listening to ,,Okaihau Express"
@@knopers_5991 Aha, another Jet Lag: The Game viewer!
@@lukeweeks3470 I LOVE JET LAG 🔥🔥🔥
@@knopers_5991 Worth the Nebula subscription just for that show!
@@knopers_5991it was Sam and Toby listening to the elements. Ben and Adam were the ones doing the okaihau express
Gale Boetticher actually loves that
From the "Songs by Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2" LP - Recreated by Daniel Rutledge on a UK TV Show.
Our professor sang this whole song yesterday in class. It was awesome.
truly, an Animaniac of his own time
i am the very model of a modern major general
Tom Ripley it’s the same tune ofc :)
i love pirates of penzance
I bet the Modern Major General really could sing this song though... he can do anything... aside from his actual job XD
My friends have so many knick names for me we considered making a periodic table of knick names
I'm gonna sing this for my school talent show. Thanks for making this lyrics video!
I remember watching this way back... now I’m here again. Nostalgia