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