Galaxy Song

[00:01.28] Whenever life gets you down, Mrs Brown
[00:04.18] And things seem hard or tough
[00:07.85] And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
[00:12.74] And you feel that you've had quite enough
[00:21.59] Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
[00:27.44] And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
[00:31.01] It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
[00:35.40] A sun that is the source of all our power
[00:39.25] The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
[00:43.32] Are moving at a million miles a day
[00:46.72] In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
[00:51.14] Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
[01:02.88] Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
[01:07.04] It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
[01:10.88] It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick
[01:14.64] But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide
[01:18.74] We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
[01:22.69] We go round every two hundred million years
[01:26.49] And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
[01:30.35] In this amazing and expanding universe
[02:05.44] The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
[02:10.21] In all of the directions it can whizz
[02:14.14] As fast as it can go – the speed of light, you know
[02:17.96] Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
[02:21.66] So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
[02:25.96] How amazingly unlikely is your birth
[02:30.00] And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
[02:33.86] 'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth
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