Eight Planets Jeffrey Hale ©2006
This is the story of eight little planets. Em7 C7 Am
Way out there in the milky way..
We've got the sun and Hailey's comet.
We’ve got the night. We’ve got the day. B
The sun’s the center, it’s a star. Em7 C7 Am
It’s closer to us than the other stars are.
A hot ball of gas of burning flame.
in the focus of the elliptical plane. B
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Eight planets circle the sun. Em C D
The sun’s in the center of the solar system.
Around they go in revolution.
It’s our solar system. C D
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A planets a body of rock and gas.
It orbits the sun in an elliptical path.
Eight planets revolve our sun.
Can you name each and every one?
Learning the planets can be fun.
Mercury is the closest to the sun.
Then come Venus Earth and Mars.
The inner planets are rocky hard.
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The outer planet is not so hot.
It’s made of gas , has a great red spot.
The red spot is a hurricane.
Jupiter is the planets name.
Next planet out has a system of rings
made of ice, made of dust, made of other things.
18 moons, a 10 hour turn.
The planet with rings is Saturn.
Solo
What’s the planet with the greatest season?
It must be Uranus for a very good reason.
It rolls on its side as it orbits the sun. In Earth years it last’s 21.
The blue giant is way out there.
Even farther than Pluto for 20 Earth years.
This blue planet has 8 moons. It’s the one and only Neptune.
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Bridge - slow feel
It used to be a planet now it’s only a rock.
It has a twin. Is it a moon or not?
Well I don't care what they say. I love Pluto anyway.
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