Why Does the Sun Shine?

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas

A gigantic nuclear furnace

Where hydrogen is built into helium

At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo, ho, it's hot, the sun is not

A place where we could live

But here on Earth there'd be no life

Without the light it gives

We need it's light, we need it's heat

We need it's energy

Without the sun, without a doubt

There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas

A gigantic nuclear furnace

Where hydrogen is built into helium

At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot, the sun is so hot

That everything on it is a gas

Copper, iron, aluminum

On the surface of the sun are all gas

The sun is large, the sun is so large

A million Earths could fit inside

And yet the sun is just

A middle-sized star

The sun is far away

It's about ninety-three million miles away

And that's why it looks so small

But even when it's out of sight

The sun shines night and day

The sun gives light, the sun gives heat

The sunlight we see

The sunlight comes from our own sun's

Atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is huge atom crushing machine

The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction

Between hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen

And helium

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas

A gigantic nuclear furnace

Where hydrogen is built into helium

At a temperature of millions of degrees