Who was the lyric writer and the singer of the Song whose last line is

quote:

And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.

Is the Correct spelling.

PS In real time the song is 50-60 years out of date

Tom Lehrer wrote and sang The Element Song
The last line is so spelt to rhyme with 'Harvard'.
(Sang to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's
Major-General's Song )

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.
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.

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.

There's sulfur, 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.

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 the more famous singer besides Leherer ?

If only I can listened to this in high school, who knows what I might have made of myself. Not that I stood much chance of a successful science career after the chemistry teacher burned down the lab in an experiment gone wrong.

The Elements song

Sorry Tom Lehrer's version is the only one I know of.
VIv

For some reason, I think of Danny Kaye and Tony Randall when I read these lyrics.

Danny Kaye did a song called 'Tchaikovsky and other Russians' which in a similar vein named Rusian composers. I beleive the song was written by Ira Gerswin and Kurt Weill.
Viv

It was of course Danny Kaye

Aargh ! Sometimes I think my posts are invisible !
It WASN'T Danny Kaye.
Danny Kaye may have been the answer you were thinking of,but that isn't the correct answer to your question.
You asked "Who was the lyric writer and the singer of the song whose last line is 'And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard' " ?
The only song that contain those lyrics is 'The Elements Song' and that was written and sang by
Tom Lehrer
Danny Kaye to the best of my knowledge NEVER sang this song,if he ever did,then he certainly never wrote it.
Viv

Viv, I only meant that I associate that song, or possibly something similar, with Kaye. It must have been the Russian composers song, because I remember seeing Kaye to that.

By the way, maybe this time Bedstor will be angry at you now, instead of me, for trying to set right one of his trivia posts.

DG I wasn't refering to your answer, that was fine. You said it reminded you of a Danny Kaye song and I replied with the title of the DK song that you were probably thinking of.
I was annoyed (probably got out of bed the wrong side this morning!)that bedstor said this was the correct answer when it wasn't.
Viv