Galaxy Song (Aussie Tempos 1021 ) James Reid

OPENER

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)
Swing - Promenade
In the outer spiral arm, at 40000 miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way

FIGURE

Heads touch 1/4 - Girls Pass Thru
Centres Pass The Ocean - Others Hinge
Boys Trade - then do a Single Hinge
Boys Run and do a Right and left thru
Swing Thru, Swing Thru again
Swing your corner girl and promenade
In the outer spiral arm, at 40000 miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way

MIDDLE BREAK

Sides Face Grand Square
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thosand light years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light years wide
Allemande Left - Weave
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic centre point
(We go 'round every two hundred million years)
Swing - Promenade
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

CLOSER

Sides Face Grand Square
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
Allemande Left - Weave
Remember, when you're feeling very small and insecurefrom galactic centre point
(How amazingly unlikely is your birth)
Swing - Promenade
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause I'm afraid that we've been cheated here on Earth

ALTERNATIVE FIGURE

Heads touch 1/4 - Girls Pass Thru
Centres 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 40000 miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way