Misc Children – The Solar System Song (Guitar)
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[Sun]
C G The Sun is the center of our Solar System, C F Em As a giant ball of plasma, it's pretty hard to miss him Am F Em In its 30 million degree center, you will see Am G C Hydrogen fuse into helium and release energy. C F G Magnetic fields cause solar flares and coronal mass ejections. C F Em And particles from these bursts damage electronic connections. Am F Em It's 100 times as wide as Earth and 93 million miles far, Am G C But despite all this, it's just an average sized star.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Mercury]
C F G Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, C F Em And as such, it takes the least time to run Am F Em Around it's orbit, it's year is only 88 Earth days, Am G C And the solar wind means that little gas stays C F G On its rocky surface, barren and full of craters C F Em With no atmosphere, its temperature waivers Am F Em Frome 800 Fahrenheit to -300 at night, Am G C But there is still some ice from craters away from light.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Venus]
C F G Venus is the second planet from the Sun, C F Em It's the same size as Earth, give or take some. Am F Em Venus is covered in a thick layer of clouds Am G C Made of carbon dioxide, which in effect shrouds C F G The planet from losing heat like a giant blanket, C F Em So it's 900 degrees due to the greenhouse effect. Am F Em Its rocky volcanoes are shaped by its powers, Am G C And the only probes that ever landed died within 2 hours.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Earth]
C F G The Earth is the third planet from the Sun. C F Em I got a feeling you're familiar with this one. Am F Em It's the only planet know to have had life in it's history. Am G C Though just how life started is still a bit of a mystery. C F G 4 billion years ago, two protoplanets collided, C F Em And our moon was formed when collision debris united. Am F Em Earth's in the Goldilocks Zone, not too hot nor too cold, Am G C For liquid water to exist and life as we know it to take hold.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Mars]
C F G Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, C F Em And it's the place where our voyage to other planets has begun. Am F Em Its surface is covered in red iron oxide, Am G C Since much of its atmosphere was blown away with no magnetic field inside. C F G Early astronomers saw canals everywhere, C F Em And they thought perhaps, aliens had put them there. Am F Em Thanks to telescopes, orbiters, and rovers, we now know Am G C That there are no such alien canals, although C F G Rivers, deltas, volcanoes, and canyons abound, C F Em There's little water left, but life on Mars may still be found, Am F Em So we send spacecraft there, like Curiosity, Am G C To try and understand Mars's geologic history.
[Asteroid Belt]
C F G Between the inner planets and outer planets, there are C F Em Billions of asteroids orbiting in a belt around our star. Am F Em Sometimes they are knocked out of their stable orbit, Am G C And a few might collide with Earth if they don't avoid it. C F G Why the Belt? Well, it has to do with Jupiter, you see. C F Em It pulls on the Belt with its massive gravity, Am F Em Preventing asteroids from forming into another planet. Am G C But don't worry, a big one can't hit Earth soon, or can it?
[Jupiter]
C F G Jupiter's the fifth planet, it's the largest one. C F Em Bigger than all the others combined, but only a thousandth the Sun. Am F Em It's a gas giant, so it has no ground on which to stand, Am G C But that doesn't mean its surface is bland. C F G The Great Red Spot is a giant cyclone on its surface. C F Em It's centuries old and huge, bigger than the Earth is. Am F Em There are four moons that, with binoculars, you can see. Am G C Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. C F G Io has volcanoes, heated through the friction of its tide, C F Em And Europa's covered in ice, with an ocean inside. Am F Em Ganymede is the largest moon we know exists, Am G C And Callisto's covered in craters, due to the asteroids it hits.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Saturn]
C F G Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. C F Em In terms of beauty, I'd say it's rings have clearly won. Am F Em They're made of bits of ice and dust orbiting through the void, Am G C And they may have been formed when a moon was destroyed. C F G Saturn is the least dense of any planet known, G F Em And the most oblate, its centrifugal force is really shown. Am F Em Titan has methane lakes with a thick orange haze, Am G C And Enceladus has water in liquid phase.
[Uranus]
C F G Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, G F Em And dirty jokes about its name are deserving of SHUN. Am F Em Not much is known about about Uranus, or its cousin, Neptune Am G C 'Cause Voyager 2 was the only craft to ever go to them. C F G Uranus has rings, though not as great as Saturn's, G F Em And it's usually devoid of any interesting patterns. Am F Em There's not much more about this place which I could say. Am G C But hopefully we'll send a new spacecraft there someday.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Neptune]
C F G Neptune is the eighth and final planet from our star. C F Em The Sun's .1 percent as bright because it is so far. Am F Em It's similar to Uranus in mass, size, and compisition, Am G C And Uranus's orbit predicted its position. C F G You might have noticed Neptune is a bright blue. C F Em The methane in its atmosphere gives Neptune its hue. Am F Em It's the windiest with 1000 mile-per-hour gusts Am G C And Triton has liquid nitrogen spewing from its crust.
[Chorus]
C F Em Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Am G They're the first 4 planets, rocky like ours. F Am Em Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Am F G C They're made of hydrogen and helium gas, like a balloon!
[Pluto]
C F G The ninth planet was Pluto, but it's a planet no more C F Em Because it's too small, it's a dwarf planet, but this topic's sore. Am F Em The planets orbit close in a plane, but Pluto does not, Am G C Until more dwarf plnets were found, that's what got this topic hot. C F G Pluto's moon Charon is Pluto's little brother, C F Em So big that Pluto and Charon orbit one another. Am F Em Beyond the Kuiper Belt is the Oort Cloud, Am G C And that's where debris from our star's formation can be found.
[Outro]
C F G Our Sun and the planets, like Earth and Mars C F Em Are not alone, just look at the stars. Am F Em You see, most stars have their own collection of bodies, Am G C And that is the search for exoplanets studies. C F G And there are far more stars out there than you can see, C F Em 3 hundred billion in our galaxy. Am F Em And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies we know, Am G C So just think about how small you are down here below.
Fun Fact: Believe it or not, but it's true, so, I made the chords myself!