Sung by: John Flansburgh and John Linnell
Length: 2:16
On Albums: Severe Tire Damage
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Intro:
F - Bb -
F - - -
Chorus:
F - Bb -
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
F - C -
A gigantic nuclear furnace
F - Bb -
Where hydrogen is built into helium
F C F / Bb F
At a temperature of millions of degrees.
1.
|: F Bb F Bb
Yo ho, it's hot - the sun is not
F - C -
A place where we could live;
F - Bb -
But here on Earth there'd be no life
C F / Bb F :|
Without the light it gives.
|: F Bb F Bb
We need its light, we need its heat,
F - C -
We need its energy;
F - Bb -
Without the sun, without a doubt
C F / Bb F :|
There'd be no you and me.
Chorus
F Bb
The sun is hot...
It is so hot that everything on it is a gas. Iron, copper,
aluminum, and many others.
F Bb
The sun is large...
If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And
yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
F Bb C
The sun is far away...
About 93 million miles away - and that's why it looks so small.
|: F Bb
And even when it's out of sight
C F / Bb F :|
The sun shines night and day.
|: F Bb F Bb
The sun gives heat; the sun gives light -
F - C -
The sunlight that we see;
F - Bb -
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
C F / Bb F :|
Atomic energy...
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing
machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear
reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and helium.
Chorus:
F - Bb -
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
F - C -
A gigantic nuclear furnace
F - Bb -
Where hydrogen is built into helium
F C F / Bb F
At a temperature of millions of degrees.
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-E.M.