[Verse 1]
Rutherford cranking the engine, hundred-four, call him Rf,
Split the atom wide open, left the old chart in debt,
Rolled to Dubna, Russia, hundred-five on the map,
Dubnium riding shotgun, Db stitched to the strap,
Seaborg hundred-six, Sg, the man got his own name,
Only living scientist ever wearing table fame,
Bohr in the backseat mumbling hundred-seven, Bh,
Bohrium, quantum whisper, electron shells on his breath,
Pulled up in Hesse, Germany, hundred-eight, Hassium, Hs,
Heavy trunk of protons, engine coughing distress.
[Chorus]
Rutherford, Dubna, Seaborg, Bohr, Hesse —
Ride the superheavy row, laboratory address,
Meitner, Darmstadt, Röntgen, Copernicus, Japan,
Flerov, Moscow, Livermore, Tennessee, then the Og-man,
Hundred-four to hundred-eighteen, one long synthetic line,
Say the chain and lock the names, the elements align.
[Verse 2]
Hundred-nine, they met Meitner, Mt for Meitnerium,
First lady honored solo, no royal to summon her,
Darmstadt, Germany waiting, hundred-ten, that's Ds,
Darmstadtium heavy-footed, dense as a locked chest,
Röntgen flew in from nowhere, hundred-eleven, Rg,
Roentgenium, X-ray vision, seeing through the debt,
Copernicus circling, hundred-twelve, that's Cn,
Copernicium spinning planets round again,
Landed hard in Japan, hundred-thirteen, Nh,
Nihonium, RIKEN's finest, first Asian breath.
[Verse 3]
Flerov drove from Moscow, hundred-fourteen, Fl,
Flerovium, noble-heavy, island-stability spell,
Moscow region hundred-fifteen, Moscovium, Mc,
Livermore, California, hundred-sixteen, Lv check,
Tennessee lab glowing, hundred-seventeen, Ts,
Tennessine, halogen cousin, heaviest of the set,
Oganessian standing tallest, hundred-eighteen, the crown,
Oganesson, noble finish, closes the whole run down,
Seven rows completed, table shuts its gate,
Eighteen columns settled — memorize the weight.
[Chorus]
Rutherford, Dubna, Seaborg, Bohr, Hesse —
Ride the superheavy row, laboratory address,
Meitner, Darmstadt, Röntgen, Copernicus, Japan,
Flerov, Moscow, Livermore, Tennessee, then the Og-man,
Hundred-four to hundred-eighteen, one long synthetic line,
Say the chain and lock the names, the elements align.
[Bridge]
People, then places, places, then people,
Rutherford — Dubna, Seaborg — Bohr, Hesse — steeple,
Meitner — Darmstadt, Röntgen — Copernicus — Japan,
Flerov — Moscow, Livermore — Tennessee — Og-man,
Say it backward, say it forward, lock it in the chest,
Hundred-four to hundred-eighteen, you already passed the test.
[Outro]
Rf, Db, Sg, Bh, Hs, Mt, Ds, Rg, Cn,
Nh, Fl, Mc, Lv, Ts, Og — say it again,
Table's finished, chart is closing, synthetic and true,
Hundred-eighteen elements, now they all belong to you.