"Deeply Soothing Positive Vibrations for a Healthy Planet.".

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These lyrics are based on Monty Python's
Galaxy Song from "The Meaning of Life"
as played by Jim Post. I always hum this tune
when things get a little difficult...
just to put things in perspective.
It's also a good learning song for the kids!
Steve


THE GALAXY
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things are hard and tough,
People are stupid, obnoxious and dumb
And you feel like you've had quite enough.

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned
From the sun which is the source for all our power.

The sun and you and me
And all the stars that you can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outward spiraled norm of 40 thousand miles an hour
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Now the galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light years side from side.
It bulges in the middle 16,000 light years thick
But a guess is just 10,000 light years wide.

We're 100,000 light years from galactic central point;
We go round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

Now the universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In every direction you could wish
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know,
12 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 was your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up above,
Cause there [may not be] any down here on earth.

Lighten up there are stars in the sky.
Lighten up now there's a good question why,
But you don't know the answer and neither do I
So meanwhile let's just all lighten up.

 

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