Hi, all.

I've been singing "The Elements" in Midlands folk clubs for a while now and have found that I have an odd compulsion to keep the song up to date. So far, after an initial catch-up verse to include all the new elements discovered since Tom wrote the song, and after a few renamed elements and a smattering of new ones, here is v 1.05 of my verse, to be inserted after the "cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium" line. Enjoy ! And, yes - I *am* a programmer, funnily enough. :o)

There's ununseptium, meitnerium, darmstadtium and dubnium,
ununpentium, ununquadium, ununoctium, ununtrium,
copernicium, ununhexium, lawrencium, seaborgium,
and hassium, bohrium, roentgenium, and also rutherfordium.

Malcolm Jeffrey

p.s. being a Black Countryman, anotherpossible ending I reserve for Midlands audiences is

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Audnam,
and there may be many others, but if there am, then we ay 'eard on 'em.