They Might Be Giants Follow

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light, we need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot
It is so hot that everything on it is a gas
Iron, copper, aluminum and many others

The sun is large
If the sun were hollow a million earths could fit inside
And yet the sun is only a middle sized star

The sun is far away
About 93 million miles away
And that's why it looks so small
And even when it's out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat, the sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own suns
Atomic energy

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

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees