The Galaxy Song
A-1021
Called By James Reid
OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK - CLOSER
Sides face grand square
*Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
The sun that is the source of all our power
Allemande Left, Weave
**Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way
FIGURE
Heads (sides) touch 1/4, Girls pass thru
Centers Pass the Ocean, Others Hinge
Boys trade, then do a Single Hinge
Boys run, and do a Right & Left Thru
Swing Thru, Swing Thru again
Swing Your Corner Girl and Promenade
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way
ALTERNATE LYRICS
*Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
But out by us it's three thousand light-years wide
**We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
*Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's fast
**Remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause I'm afraid that we've been cheated here on Earth
FIGURE (ALTERNATE)
Heads (sides) touch 1/4, Girls pass thru
Centers Pass the Ocean, Others Hinge
Boys trade, in each half Recycle
Girl Walk Boy Dodge, Single Hinge
Boy Trade, Boy Run, Half Tag, Face Right
Square Thru but on the third hand Swing, Promenade
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way
TAG
Swing / Waltz

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