THE GALAXY SONG  (Eric Idle of Monty Python)

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      Whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown
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And things seem hard or tough
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And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
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And you feel like you've had quite enou-ou-ou-ou-ough...


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Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
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And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
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That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
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A sun that is the source of all our power

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The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
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Are moving at a million miles a day
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In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
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Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Turnaround: |Eb Ebm|Bb Gm |Cm F  |Bb  F  | 

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Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
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It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
   F7
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
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But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide

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We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
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We go round every two hundred million years
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And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
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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:
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The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
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In all of the directions it can whizz
   F7
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
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Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is

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So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
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How amazingly unlikely is your birth
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And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
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'Cos there's bugger-all down here on Earth

:Charted by Bustopher the Busker - bustopher@bigpond.com