THE GALAXY SONG (Eric Idle of Monty Python) Am7-5 Bb Whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown Am7-5 Bb And things seem hard or tough Am7-5 Bb G7 And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft Cm F7 F6 F And you feel like you've had quite enou-ou-ou-ou-ough... Bb Dm Gm Bb Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving F And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour F7 That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned F Bb A sun that is the source of all our power Bb Dm Gm Bb The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see G7 Cm Are moving at a million miles a day Eb Ebm Bb Gm7 In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour Cm F Bb Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way Turnaround: |Eb Ebm|Bb Gm |Cm F |Bb F | Bb Dm Gm Bb Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars F It's a hundred thousand light years side to side F7 It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick F Bb But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide Bb Dm Gm Bb We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point G7 Cm We go round every two hundred million years Eb Ebm Bb Gm7 And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions Cm F Bb In this amazing and expanding universe Instrumental to verse chords, but in 6/8 Time: |Bb Dm |Gm Bb | |F | |F7 | |F |Bb | |Bb Dm |Gm Bb |G7 |Cm | [Ritarduendo and Rubato]: |Eb Ebm|Bb |Cm F |Bb F | [Fermata on last chord] Back to Cut Common Time: Bb Dm Gm Bb The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding F In all of the directions it can whizz F7 As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know F Bb Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is Bb Dm Gm Bb So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure G7 Cm How amazingly unlikely is your birth Eb Ebm Bb Gm7 And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space Cm F Bb 'Cos there's bugger-all down here on Earth :Charted by Bustopher the Busker - bustopher@bigpond.com
