Fifteen years ago I was lucky enough to teach chemistry for a year at a private school on the slopes of Diamond Head in Honolulu. I even managed to convince the girls' choir to sing this spoof of "My Favorite Things". Warning: if you have good hearing, you will need a hearing aid to listen to what was originally recorded on a cheap tape recorder.
**1996-97 La Pietra Choir consisted of Sam Perske, Stephanie Dullum, Jeanette Watanabe, Maile Moody, Lisa Nguyen and Mahina.Piano: Kim Walters;
Arrangements: Nancy Hunt.
Lyrics composed, or rather spoofed by E.Uva; music by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers.
If Hammerstein Was A Chemist
Listen to mp3 .........*credits*
Halides in white salts and atoms in kittens,
Bright copper sulfate and thick safety mittens,
Big helium balloon shapes tied up with strings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cream-colored sulfur and crisp flakes of osmium,
Tin plates and gold plates and compounds with indium,
Wild sparks that fly off our flasks on the rings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Zinc on auto cars without rusty rashes,
Dry ice that freezes my nose and eyelashes,
Silvery white crystals that melt into springs,
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
Science doesn't feel so bad.
**1996-97 La Pietra Choir consisted of Sam Perske, Stephanie Dullum, Jeanette Watanabe, Maile Moody, Lisa Nguyen and Mahina.Piano: Kim Walters;
Arrangements: Nancy Hunt.
Lyrics composed, or rather spoofed by E.Uva; music by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers.
Next on your agenda: get if Rammstein was a chemist:
P.S. Glad someone uses our nifty auto mp3 player in here.