Carbon is A Girl’s Best Friend

An adaption of "Diamond’s are a Girl’s Best Friend" written and performed by Lynda Williams for the 44th Annual Midwest Solid State Conference at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.


A lithium dose just might cure your depression
but carbon is a girl’s best friend.
Gold may be grand but it won’t start a fire in y our
BBQ or put the toot in your choo-choo.
Life on Earth is carbon based.
It came here on rocks from outer space and
formed organic compounds till
the carbon-cycle went round and round!
Carbon is a girl’s best friend!

There may come a time when you need to do some
squeezing - carbon is your hardest friend!
There may come a time when a substrate is needed
to deposit your film on.
Well just sputter it on a hard diamond.
If you have some lubing to do
then graphite is the allotrope for you.
Or if your into Ages then carbon-14 will date it.
Carbon is a girl’s best friend!

I’ve heard of attempts to make hard carbon nitride
but diamonds always win in the end!
I’ve heard that we need to make something much cleaner
to put in our cars or else we won’t get very far.

Cuz time rolls on and supplies will be gone
of diamonds, coal and petroleum.
But nanotechnology can build anything with fullerenes!

Carbon is a girl’s best friend.