Return the column names of MySQL table?

Forgive me for the off topic question. This is a MySQL question.. has nothing to do with PHP directly. However I was not able to find an answer in the MySQL documentation, on Usenet, or the MySQL mailing list archives. Also MySQL.com's mail manager is on the fritz so I can't even subscribe to the MySQL email list. Anyway since many of you are familiar with SQL this is as good a place to ask this question as any. I simply need to return a list of column names of a MySQL table. What's the syntax to do that? Thanks, Kevin