Galaxy Song - Monty Python

Whenever life gets you

Down, mrs.

Brown, and

Things seem hard or tough

And people are stupid

Obnoxious or daft and you

Feel that you’ve had quite

Enough…

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving

And revolving at 900 miles an hour

That’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned

A 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 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 and billions

In this amazing and expanding Universe

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know

12 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 it is your birth

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space

Because there’s bugger all down here on Earth