Carbon is a Girl's Best Friend

Carbon is a Girl's Best Friend

This is a cover version of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" famously sung by Marilyn Monroe, but this version is better!

It has the best line of lyrics of any song ever written...

"If you have some lubing to do, then graphite is the allotrope for you, you, you, you!"

It still makes me smile every time 😁

This does NOT belong to me - it is sung by Lynda Williams - although I created the video.

For your delight - here are the lyrics:

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹'𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱

A lithium dose just might cure your depression

But carbon is a girl's best friend

And gold may be grand, but it won't start a fire

In your barbeque or put a toot in your choo-choo

'Cos, life on Earth is carbon-based

It came here on rocks from outer space

And formed organic compounds 'til the carbon-cycle went round-and-round

Carbon is a girl's best friend

Well there may come a time when you need to do some squeezing

Carbon is the world's hardest friend

And there may come a time when a substrate is needed

To deposit your film on - just sputter it on a hard diamond

Or, If you have some lubing to do

Then graphite is the allotrope for you, you, you, you!

Or, if you're into ages, then carbon-14 can date it

Carbon is a girl's best friend

Well I've heard of attempts to make hard carbon nitride

But diamonds always win in the end (you know they do, darling)

And I've heard that we need to make something much cleaner

To put into to our cars, or else we won't get very far

'Cos time rolls on and supplies will be gone

Of diamonds, coal and petroleum

But nanotechnology can build anything with fullerenes

Carbon...

Carbon... yeah

I don't mean hydrogen

But carbon

Is a girl's best...

Friend!

Best friend!