Songs:Song Of The Planets (12337)

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Trivia, story behind the song, etc.

Lyrics

by Eric Idle (Monty Python)

    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 eno-o-o-o-o-ough...

    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".

    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.
    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.

    (Animated calliope interlude)

    The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
    In all of the directions it can whizz
    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 pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
    'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

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Song Of The Planets by Faith Petric SONG
on the album When Did We Have Sauerkraut? Buy Faith Petric at CD-Baby When Did We Have Sauerkraut?	Request this song: Song Of The Planets (Only logged in and authenticated users can make requests.) Overall rating: (23 votes) Your rating: You have to login to give your opinion about songs. Length: 1:54 Times played: 76 People hearing: 1508 Times requested: 53 First played: May 6th, 2003 Last played: Aug 9th, 2008 Previously played: Jul 9th, 2008 Song ID#: 12337	Listener rankings: 5 stars=Sol® ♦ Big Tom ♦ Beukeboom ♦ Jim ♦ Phillip ♦ Anagram ♦ Dean ♦ Cater ♦ Reed ♦ Toddtyrtle ♦ Half-pint ♦ Atuuschaaw 4 stars=Fine-line ♦ Kelli ♦ Bisbonian ♦ sparx ♦ CooleyBufo ♦ Dale G 3 stars=Hexaba ♦ JC ♦ Pyrite 2 stars=Hoonah 1 star=jjascob