The Ballad of Marie Curie

A corpse in the park

Her husband, her tutor

Glow in the dark

The fame of the future

The story was told

She's gone where the gods live

Carbon to gold

She's radioactive, radioactive

The year 1903, in late September

A pavilion in Peczynska province

Let's prepare a voyage for December

We read the chemistry like poems

Sound of the atoms cracking

Signs in the radium tracking

Our goddess Marie Curie, Marie Curie

A corpse in the park

Her husband her tutor

Glow in the dark

The fame of the future

The story was told

She's gone where the gods live

Carbon to gold

She's radioactive, radioactive

In June, the 12th, 1911

My children radium and polonium

I have dinner with Strindberg in blue heaven

Pierre's gone to X-ray pandemonium

From the laboratory of Eden

To the monarchy of Sweden

The laureate Marie Curie, Marie Curie

A corpse in the park

Her husband, her tutor

Glow in the dark

The fame of the future

The story was told

She's gone where the gods live

Carbon to gold

She's radioactive, radioactive

Sound of the atoms cracking

Signs in the radium tracking

Our goddess Marie Curie, Marie Curie

A corpse in the park

Her husband, her tutor

Glow in the dark

The fame of the future

The story was told

She's gone where the gods live

Carbon to gold

She's radioactive, radioactive

A corpse in the park

Her husband, her tutor

Glow in the dark

The fame of the future

The story was told

She's gone where the gods live

Carbon to gold

She's radioactive, radioactive

A corpse in the park

Her husband, her tutor

Glow in the dark

The fame of the future

The story was told

She's gone where the gods live

Carbon to gold

She's radioactive, radioactive