Galaxy Song

Galaxy Song - Monty Python

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 it's reckoned

A sun that is the source 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 an outer spiral arm

At forty thousand miles an hour

Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'

Our galaxy itself contains

A hundred billion stars

It's a hundred thousand

Light years side to side

It bulges in the middle

Sixteen thousand light years thick

But out by us

It's just three thousand 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 millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps

On expanding and expanding

In all of the directions it can whizz

As fast as it can go at the speed of light

You know

Twelve 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