The Galaxy Song
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G6 G7 D7 In all of the directions it can whiz The Galaxy Song D7 D7sus4 D7 D7sus4 Monty Python (Eric Idle) As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know D7 G Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest D7 Intro: Spoken, loosely speed there is Gdim G G GM7 G6 Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown So remember, when you're feeling very small and Gdim G GM7 And things seem hard or tough insecure Gdim G E7 E7 Am And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft How amazingly unlikely is your birth A7 D7 C Eb G And you feel that you've had quite enough And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in E7 Verse space G GM7 G6 A7 D7 G Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's Because there's bugger all down here on Earth GM7 evolving G6 G7 D7 And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour D7 D7sus4 D7 That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's D7sus4 reckoned D7 G D7 A sun that is the source of all our power G GM7 G6 The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can GM7 see E7 Am Are moving at a million miles a day C Eb G E7 In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour A7 D7 G Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way G GM7 G6 GM7 Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars G6 G7 D7 It's a hundred thousand light-years side-to-side D7 D7sus4 D7 It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years D7sus4 thick D7 G D7 A7 Am C But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide G GM7 G6 We're thirty thousand light-years from galactic central GM7 point E7 Am We go round every two hundred million years D7 D7sus4 E7 C Eb G E7 And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions A7 D7 G In this amazing and expanding universe Instrumental G GM7 G6 GM7 Eb G G6 G6 G7 D7 D7 D7sus4 D7 D7sus4 D7 G D7 G GM7 G6 GM7 E7 Am C Eb G D7 G D7 G7 GM7 Gdim G GM7 G6 The universe itself keeps on expanding and GM7 expanding http://stewartgreenhill.com/ukulele.