@database Alans_MP_GalaxySong.doc @remark Converted with HTML2Guide ©1997 Mark Harman @wordwrap @node MAIN "Alans_MP_GalaxySong.doc" G A L A X Y S O N G - M O N T Y P Y T H O N Intro: WHENEVER LIFE GETS YOU DOWN, MRS BROWN AND THINGS SEEM HARD OR TOUGH, AND PEOPLE ARE STUPID, OBNOXIOUS OR DAFT AND YOU FEEL LIKE 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 once every 200 million of 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 whizz. 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 amazing unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, Because there's bugger all down here on Earth. Monty Pyths "Galaxy Song" Author: Eric Idle Composer: Eric Idle/John Du Prez This song can be heard on the "Monty Python Sings" CD and at the end of Monty Pythons "The Meaning of Life" (an excellent film!!). Typed by Alan Graham (Brother of Pentrisoft Member Stephen Graham) If this is popular, I will do a new song/sketch every issue. @endnode