Lyrics & Music by: Lynn Ahrens
Performed by: The Tokens
Down, down, down, down gravity
Helpin'wash the dishes
And I drop a cup
Why does everything fall down
Instead of up?
Ridin' up a hill I spill
And hit the ground
Wish I could fall up instead of always failing down
Down, de-down, down, down
I'm a victim of gravity
Everything keeps failin' down on me
No matter where I go
That force is there I know,
Just a pullin' me down, down, down, down, down
It's all around town now,
It's like a magnet deep inside the ground
When I lift something up,
I can feel it pulling down
It pulls me in the pool,
It pulls rain down on me
I'm a victim of
Down, down, down, down, gravity, yeah
Galileo, Galileo, Galliel-
He did experiments with a force he couldn't see
(Could not see, yeah)
He found that all things fall to earth at the very same speed
(Very same speed, yeah)
He didn't know it yet, but that was due to gravity
The moon goes'round the earth
And shines its silver light
The earth goes 'round the sun
And makes the seasons right
It isn't love that makes the world go 'round, you see,
It's the power of gravity,
But please don't tell Mary Jean
Down, de-down, down, down
Without earth's gravity
To keep us in our place,
We'd have no weight at all,
We'd be in outer space
The sea would float away,
And so would fields and towns,
Nothin'pullin'us down, down, down, down, down, yeah
Isaac Newton underneath the apple tree
(Apple tree, yeah)
One hit him on the head,
He said, "That must be gravity"
Newton's law of gravity says that every object in the
universe pulls on every other object The bigger the
object, the stronger the Pull But the greater the
distance between the objects, the weaker the pull becomes
Come back, Mary Jean!
Don't call me clumsy,
Don't call me a fool
When things fall down on me,
I'm following the rule;
The rule that says that what goes up, comes down, like me,
I'm a victim of down, down, down, down gravity
Shoo-be doo, down, down, down