Galaxy Song

The Galaxy Song, written by Eric Idle and composed by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, appeared in The Meaning of Life, sung by Eric Idle.

(Spoken Intro) Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft
(Sung) And you feel what you've had quite ENOUGH..........

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
And revelving at 900 miles and hour
That's orbiting at 19 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 milllion miles a day
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000, miles an hour
Of a 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 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 light-years wide
We're 30,000 light-years form galactic central point
We go 'round every 200 million years
And out galaxy itself is only one of millions of billions
In this amzing and expanding universe

(Waltz Interlude)

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a second 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
'Cuz there's bugger all down here on Earth.