The Universe Song (The Galaxy Song)

Just Remember that you’re standing

on a planet that’s evolving

and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.

That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so its reckoned,

a sun that is the sorce of all our power.

The sun and you and me

and all the stars that we can see,

are moving at a million miles a day.

In and outer spiral arm

at forty thousand miles an hour,

in the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,

Its a hundred thousand light years side to side.

It bulges in the middle 16,000 light years thick

but out by us it’s just 3,000 light years wide.

We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point,

we go ’round every two hundred million years.

And our galaxy is only one of millons of billions

in this amazing and expanding universe.

The Univers itself keeps on expanding and expanding,

in all of the directions it can whizz.

As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know.

12 million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is.

So, remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure,

how amazingly unlikely is your birth.

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,

’cause there’s bugger all down here on earth