Chem Is Try

This is a song I rewrote and performed for AP Chemistry, to the tune of "American Pie" by Don McLean. Please excuse the singing. Enjoy!

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how those color changes made me smile
I knew some day I would be
A master of all chemistry
With all those burets and vials

But all the labs, they made me scared
The first AP problems, that I just stared
Bad grades left me unmotivated
And filled my head with thoughts of dread

I can't remember if I cried
When I got one molar hydrochloric acid in my eye
But with Big Lautz as my guide
He taught me that Chem, Chem is try

[Chorus]
Try, try, you know chem is just try
You can't rest, you've got a test
You haven't run out of time
You took your notes, and stayed up, studied all night
Thinking, "This is how I'll earn a five,
This is how I'll get a five."

[Verse 2]
It started out with Flinn's Safety Contract
That told us never to use equipment that is cracked
And to waft smells into your nose
We had to memorize solubility rules
Even before we started school
Which most of us still don't know

Calculations were easy, like density
And different ions propensities
We had no clue about equilibria
We didn't even use algebra

We learned a bit about electrons that spun
And balanced net ionic equations
ReDox would've left us outdone
Because Chem, Chem Is Try

[Chorus]

Well Thomson fed us plum pudding
And Millikan said electrons cling
I'm uncertain where Heisenberg is...
Rutherford found the proton
Bohr put it together, said what's going on
And Schrodinger was an atomic whiz

Organic Chem was something new
Too many functional groups, didn't know what to do
How do you form carbon tetrahydrogen?
Is it just hybridization?

Do you know of expanded octets?
And do polyacrylates ever get wet?
What's the absorbance of this cuvet?
Well, Chem, Chem is Try

[Chorus]

Electro Chem was cool, I suppose
With electroplating on the cathode
And new ions that were sort of 'complex'
Galvanic cells and their negative (delta) Gs
Looking back, it was so easy
So Lautz said the "hardest chapter" was next

Thermodynamic Chemistry
Enough to bring any student to their knees
But we passed with flying colors!
Better than any other!

The order was found in experiments
In formation rates and kinetics
We graphed those lines with catalysts
Because Chem, Chem Is Try

[Chorus]

Finally, Equilibrium
Ksps and the Law of Mass-Action
But you've got to have your water distilled
When titrating with an acid and base
Why does pH behave this way?
It's Le Chatelier's Principle

Over this year, we've learned so much
About stoichiometry and gases and such
I don't want it to end!
Good thing there's Organic Chem!

As I'm about to bid adieu
It seems there's only one thing left to do
And that's to say to Mr. L, "THANK YOU"
For teaching us that Chem, Chem Is Try

So we're singing...
[Chorus]

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God... DAMN IT. I love you so much, Xanny.