The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
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A gigantic nuclear furnace
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Where hydrogen is built into helium
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At a temperature of millions of degrees
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Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
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A place where we could live
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But here on earth there'd be no life
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Without the light it gives
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We need it's light
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We need it's heat
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We need it's energy
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Without the sun, without a doubt
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There'd be no you and me
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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
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A gigantic nuclear furnace
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Where hydrogen is built into helium
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At a temperature of millions of degrees
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The sun is hot
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It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.
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The sun is large
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If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
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The sun is far away
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About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.
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And even when it's out of sight
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The sun shines night and day
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The sun gives heat
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The sun gives light
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The sunlight that we see
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The sunlight comes from our own sun's
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Atomic energy
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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. (*)
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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
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A gigantic nuclear furnace
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Where hydrogen is built into helium
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At a temperature of millions of degrees
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[(*)Live versions of this song are improvised extensively. some variants on this section:]
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Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light of the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and helium.
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Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light from the sun come from the nuclear reaction between oxygen, hydrogen, helium, and hydrogen.
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You know, frank, scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between hydrogen and you, frank o'toole.
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Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light from the sun come from the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, carbon, boron, chloron, flu
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Moron, and estrogen.
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Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)
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