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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Monty Python
Monty Python
Performer
John Du Prez
John Du Prez
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Du Prez
John Du Prez
Songwriter
Eric Idle
Eric Idle
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Starstruck - Tributes
Starstruck - Tributes
Producer
Michael Palin
Michael Palin
Producer
Andre Jacquemin
Andre Jacquemin
Producer
John Du Prez
John Du Prez
Producer
Nick Griffiths
Nick Griffiths
Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand lightyears, side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand lightyears wide
[Verse 5]
We're thirty thousand lightyears 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
[Verse 6]
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
[Verse 7]
So remember, when you're feelin' 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 Earth
Written by: Barry McGuire, Eric Idle, John Du Prez, Terry Talbot
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