Chords and lyrics for Meet The Elements by They Might Be Giants

G 

 

C 

Iron is a metal, you see it every day

C 

Oxygen, eventually, will make it rust away

G 

Carbon in its ordinary  

C 

form is coal

G 

Crush it to

C 

gether, and diamonds are  

G 

born

 

G 

Come on come on and  

C 

meet the elements

Am 

 

May I intro

G 

duce you to our  

C 

friends, the elements?

Am 

 

Like a  

D 

box of  

Em 

paints that are  

Am 

mixed 

 

t

C 

o make ever

D 

y 

 

shade

 

They either  

G 

combine to make a  

C 

chemical compound or  

D 

stand alone as they  

G 

are

 

C 

Team up with other  

D 

elements making  

G 

compounds when they com

C 

bine

 

Or  

Am 

make up a simple

C 

element formed out of

D 

atoms of the one

G 

kind

 

C 

Balloons are full of helium, a

C/D 

nd so is every star

C 

Stars are mostly hydrogen, which may  

C/D 

someday fill your car

 

E5 

Hey, who let in

D5 

all these elephants

B5 

?

 

Did you know that  

C5 

elephants are made of

D5 

elements?

C 

Elephants are mostly made of four elements

 

And  

C 

every living thing is mostly made of four elements

G 

Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bac

C 

teria and  

D 

men

 

Are mostly  

G 

carbon, hydrogen,  

C 

nitrogen and  

D 

oxyg

G 

en