Monty Python

Galaxy Song

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<i>Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard, or tough
When people seem stupid, obnoxious or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough...</i>

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the 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 the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 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 from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy 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 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,
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

	

Submitted by

forevergreen On May 25, 2002

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by tvsinesperanto

13y ago

"So, can we have your liver then?"

"Yeah, alright. You talked me into it"

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by squeeze

23y ago

monty python... genius

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by Manic

23y ago

try singing this to friends. enjoy their puzzled/scared faces.

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by chb

23y ago

great .. and the facts are true :P

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by loderunner

18y ago

Memorize this song and you'll be better at Astronomical facts than over 99 percent of the world. :)

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by tvsinesperanto 11y ago

Unfortunately, since this song was written, we have discovered more about the universe & some of the info in it is out of date & incorrect so I would caution anyone from using this song as reliable source of facts.

They were considered correct at the time however.

by the commander

18y ago

this is the most amazing lyricy in the world ever ever ever ever IV SEEN DEM LIVE

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by ACatastrophicSmile

16y ago

I'm so happy this is on here! I love this song, and this is my favourite movie ever. : D

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by walkawayben 13y ago

Ugh. I remember being dragged to it and having to have my friend on each side pry open my eyes throughout the movie. Definitely NOT up to the caliber of Mr. Bean or Benny Hill ;)

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