C
everybody lives on a street in a city
G7
or a village or a town for what it’s worth .
and they’re all inside a country which is part of a continent
C
that sits upon a planet known as earth .
and the earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
F
which is out there spinning silently in space .
F7 Cmaj7 Em6
and living on that earth are the plants and the animals
dmin G7 C G7 C
and also the entire human race .
C
it’s a great big universe
C G
and we’re all really puny
G
we’re just tiny little specks
G C
about the size of mickey rooney .
F F7
it’s big and black and inky
C Cdim7
and we are small and dinky
G G7 C
it’s a big universe and we’re not .
G7
C
and we’re part of a vast interplanetary system
G7
stretching seven hundred billion miles long .
with nine planets and a sun; we think the earth’s the only one
C
that has life on it , although we could be wrong .
across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
F
including meteors and halley’s comet too .
F7 Cmaj7 Em6
and there’s over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
dmin G7 C
in a panoramic trillion – mile view .
C
and still it’s all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
G7
in a galaxy we call the milky way .
it’s sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
C
and still that’s just a fraction of the way .
’cause there’s a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
F
filled with constellations , planets , moons and stars .
F7 Cmaj7 Em6
and still the universe extends to a place that never ends
dmin G7 C G7 C
which is maybe just inside a little jar!
C
it’s a great big universe
G7
and we’re all really puny
we’re just tiny little specks
C
about the size of mickey rooney .
F F7
though we don’t know how it got here
C Cdim7
we’re an important part here
G G7 C G7 C
it’s a big universe and it’s ours!
C
everybody lives on a street in a city
G7
or a village or a town for what it’s worth .
and they’re all inside a country which is part of a continent
C
that sits upon a planet known as earth .
and the earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
F
which is out there spinning silently in space .
F7 Cmaj7 Em6
and living on that earth are the plants and the animals
dmin G7 C G7 C
and also the entire human race .
C
it’s a great big universe
C G
and we’re all really puny
G
we’re just tiny little specks
G C
about the size of mickey rooney .
F F7
it’s big and black and inky
C Cdim7
and we are small and dinky
G G7 C
it’s a big universe and we’re not .
G7
C
and we’re part of a vast interplanetary system
G7
stretching seven hundred billion miles long .
with nine planets and a sun; we think the earth’s the only one
C
that has life on it , although we could be wrong .
across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
F
including meteors and halley’s comet too .
F7 Cmaj7 Em6
and there’s over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
dmin G7 C
in a panoramic trillion – mile view .
C
and still it’s all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
G7
in a galaxy we call the milky way .
it’s sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
C
and still that’s just a fraction of the way .
’cause there’s a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
F
filled with constellations , planets , moons and stars .
F7 Cmaj7 Em6
and still the universe extends to a place that never ends
dmin G7 C G7 C
which is maybe just inside a little jar!
C
it’s a great big universe
G7
and we’re all really puny
we’re just tiny little specks
C
about the size of mickey rooney .
F F7
though we don’t know how it got here
C Cdim7
we’re an important part here
G G7 C G7 C
it’s a big universe and it’s ours!
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