Shoulders of Giants
It was a calm and cloudless night but it was all still a blur
A shaking of our Universe ①was just about to occur
It was Summertime. . . 1609
when Galileo used his telescope for the very first time
and he saw mountains and craters on the moon
and a Milky Way with thousands of stars
and he saw Jupiter, with four tiny moons
②he was the only man on Earth that night who knew
That Copernicus was right
come outside with me tonight
and I can show you wonders of the world
to surprise and delight
I’ve got my telescope with me
③just wait until you see
that on the Shoulders of Giants. . .
. . . we’ll see beyond!
The world turns round and round now around 400 years have flown
since Galileo’s telescope first focused the unknown
Now we use bigger glass to peer into the past
And we’re discovering the Universe’s secrets at last
And there are geysers on Saturn’s icy moon
and planets ④circling hundreds of stars
while all the Universe expands like a balloon
from Galileo’s tiny telescope we’ve come so far
Galileo was right
when he looked out in the night
and he discovered wonders of the world
to surprise and delight
