Monty Python - The Galaxy Song... on a ukulele

I love this song, slightly inaccurate as it is. But I think "Meaning Of Life" is totally underrated and this is the song from it which best suits a uke.

There are a couple of people with uke versions of this song online already - and they struggled a bit with the chords because the original chords are fiendishly difficult for a uke. I used a very easy version found here:
http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/tabs/020622.html

Apologies for the poorer sound quality than usual - I forgot to hit "Suppress Background Noise" on my webcam's craptacular sound settings.

Enjoy!


Lyrics
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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel like you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

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 just 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 only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So 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 there's bugger all down here on Earth!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Galaxy
• Song
• Monty
• Python
• ukulele
• Luke
• Lewis

[IckleTaz]

Love it :)

[lukelewisDOTnet]

@IckleTaz Aw thanks :).

[SPARKULES]

NO WAY :D you made begginers guide to the british? :D i remember watching that years ago and me and all my friends bloody loving it, and i also see you like tom lehrer, he is so amazing :)

[lukelewisDOTnet]

Haha - yes, I did that video many'a year ago. Glad you liked it :).

[g739]

@SPARKULES it wasnt him it was charlieissocoollike

search him

[lukelewisDOTnet]

@g739 I think Sparkrules was talking about my video "A Beginner's Guide To The British". You're talking about "How to be English".

[TomMSTie]

Terry: "Makes you feel sort of insignificant, doesn't it?"

John: "Yeah...can we have your liver then?"

Terry: "Right, you talked me into it."

[SPARKULES]

@g739 hahaha i was right so HA take that!!!

[hippymumsal]

Brilliant!  :D

[PRINCE23062003]

3 goons missed the like button!!! This is brill, nice take on the song and lovin the uke!!!

[CassioMoraes]

I liked your voice, but the ukulele is not good... You could play it more like Julia Nunes, with more rhythm... Good video though ;)

[ElectraStars]

I fell in love with you watching this video. Sigh.