NaCl by Kate & Anna McGarrigle

I have heard an earlier version of this song that I like better, but it is still a great song and perhaps a bit of humor for Sundays lesson. If you have not listened to Kate and Anna McGarrigle before, do check them out on your favorite music source.

NaCl (SODIUM CHLORIDE)
Kate McGarrigle, Garden Court Music ASCAP

Just a little atom of chlorine
Valence minus one
Swimming through the sea, digging the scene
Just having fun
She's not worried about the shape or size
Of her outside shell
It's fun to ionize
Just a little atom of Cl
With an unfilled shell

But somewhere in that sea lurks
Handsome Sodium
With enough electrons on his outside shell
Plus that extra one
Somewhere in this deep blue sea
There's a negative
For my extra energy
Somewhere in this foam
My positive will find a home

Then unsuspecting Chlorine
Felt a magnetic pull
She looked down and her outside
Shell was full
Sodium cried "what a gas be my bride and
I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride"

Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds
For the rain and snow
Leaving her chemical compounds in the absence
Of H2O
But the crystals that wash upon the shore
Are happy ones
So if you never thought before
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat


You can listen to the song at:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/kate-anna-mcgarrigle/tracks/nacl-sodium-chloride--1462577 or by clicking on the title above in the heading.