Name: The Galaxy Song
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Channel: Monty Python

The Galaxy Song

Daryl Crowley

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Daryl Crowley

Bluesy Southern Jazz Rock Vocal and Instrumental music. Songs about you and me and other real people. Genuine Music - Made in America.

Most of the music here is music that I have written, which is my passion - writing and playing guitar centric music with lyrics that speak to and about real people. While I spent a lot of time on the road in my younger days and played with a lot of great musicians and opening acts, I've been back at it for a few years after a really long hiatus.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Cover Songs

Charts

#4,911 today Peak #86

#650 in subgenre Peak #2

Author

Monty Python

Uploaded

March 15, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 192 kbps • 3:08

Story behind the song

Just for fun and education

Lyrics

The Galaxy Song
from Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE

Just…
Re-member that you’re standing on a planet that's evolving,
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...
That's orbiting at ninety 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 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.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
Twelve million miles a minute, 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 the earth!

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