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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. BrownAnd things seem hard or toughAnd people are stupid, obnoxious or daftAnd you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-oughJust remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolvingAnd revolving at nine hundred miles an hourThat's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckonedA sun that is the source of all our powerThe sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can seeAre moving at a million miles a dayIn an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hourOf the galaxy we call the Milky WayOur galaxy itself contains a hundred billion starsIt's a hundred thousand light-years side to sideIt bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thickBut out by us it's just three thousand light-years wideWe're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central PointWe go 'round every two hundred million yearsAnd our galaxy is only one of millions of billionsIn this amazing and expanding universeThe universe itself keeps on expanding and expandingIn all of the directions it can whizAs fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you knowTwelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed thereisSo remember when you're feeling very small and insecureHow amazingly unlikely is your birthAnd pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth

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