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Description of the Sun by They Might Be Giants

This amazingly educational and entertaining song was originally sung by Tom Glazer in his 1959 "Space Songs" album. Sting, the music artist, is well-known for lip-syncing this original version for a TV spot. This song was also covered by They Might Be Giants, as heard above. Enjoy the original:



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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, its hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
Thered be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

[Spoken] It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.

The sun is large

[Spoken] If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.

The sun is far away

[Spoken] About 93 million miles away, and thats why it looks so small.

And even when its out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own suns
Atomic energy

[Spoken] 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.*

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

*The funniesy thing about this song is that all the spoken breaks in the song for moments of instruction were common place and completely normal when it was written.

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  1. RickMon Jul 13, 06:48:00 AM MDT

    Last night the kids were all upstairs by themselves and when I peeked into the room they were all singing together "without the sun without a doubt..."

    Thanks for teaching them a song they love!

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  2. LizMon Jul 13, 09:35:00 AM MDT

    Bryan! Thanks for posting this. I want to hear you sing the rest of it though.

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  3. NoelleWed Jul 15, 06:19:00 AM MDT

    Great song, I have this consistently stuck in my head now.

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