The Galaxy Song

The Galaxy Song - Danny McMaster

Whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown

And things seem hard or tough

And people are stupid obnoxious or daft

And you feel that you've had quite enough

You now half

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

And now you all text and silent

It's not Lord enough

Lord I feel like and excellent

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

And

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

And you make this universe let's into this

Just wanna get this

It can't stop roller coaster

The universe 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

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 it's bugger all down here on Earth