Introduction:

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown

And things seem sad or tough

And people are useless, or obnoxious, or daft,

And you feel that you've had quite enough...

Verse 1:

[G7]Just re- [C]member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

revolving at nine-hundred miles an [G7]hour

and orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,

a sun that is the source of all our [C]power.

Now the sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see

Are [A7]moving a million miles a [F]day

In an [F7]outer spiral arm at forty [C]thousand miles an hour

of the [G7]galaxy we call the Milky [C]Way.

Verse 2:

[C]Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars,

it's a hundred thousand light-years side to [G7]side,

it bulges in the middle, sixty thousand light-years thick,

but out by us it's just three thousand light-years [C]wide.

We're thiry thousand light-years from galactic central point

We go [A7]'round every two hundred million [F]years,

and our [F7]galaxy itself is one of [C]millions of billions in this

A[G7]mazing and Expanding Uni[C]verse!

Verse 3:

[C]The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

in all of the directions it can [G7]whiz,

as fast as it can go, the speed of light, y'know,

twelve million miles a minute, and that's the [C]fastest speed there is,

So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure

How a[A7]mazingly unlikely is your [F]birth,

And [F7]pray that there's intelligent life [C]somewhere up in space,

'Cause there's [G7]bugger-all down here on [C]Earth