50th Celebration of Chem 13 News
“Deck the Labs” was printed in a 1980 December issue of Chem 13 News from George R. Hague, when he was at Hackensack High School, Hackensack, NJ. After 38 years this carol is still being sung.
We could not find the source for the other carols on the next two pages. If anyone out there recognizes “We Three Students” and “Silent Labs”, let us know.
And if you create any chemical carols, please share them with us!
Deck the labs
Deck the labs with rubber tubing
Fa la la la la la la la la
Use your funnel when you filter
Fa la la la la la la la la
Don we now our goggles and aprons
Fa la la la la la la la la
Before we go to our lab stations
Fa la la la la la la la la
Fill the beakers with solutions
Fa la la la la la la la la
Mix solutions for reactions
Fa la la la la la la la la
Watch we now for observations
Fa la la la la la la la la
So we can collect our data
Fa la la la la la la la la
We Three Students of Chemistry Are
We three students of chemistry are
taking tests that we think are hard
Stoichiometry, volumes and densities
worrying all the time.
O room of wonder
room of fright
Room of thermites
blinding light:
With your energies
please don’t burn us
Help us get our labs all right.
Silent Labs
Silent Labs, difficult labs
All with math, all with graphs
Observations of colors and smells
Calculations and graph curves like bells
Memories of tests that have past
Oh – how long will chemistry last?
Silent labs, difficult labs
All with math, all with graphs
Lots of equations that need balancing
Gas pressure problems that make my head ring
Santa Chlorine’s on his way
Oh – Please Santa bring me an ‘A’
