The Galaxy Song

Key of G

• G D D7 G E7 Am/C C - play these chords

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving Revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles per 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 a galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars It's one 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 ours 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 whiz 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 hope that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'Cause we're all stuck down here on Earth