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
The sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas

Copper, iron, aluminum, on the surface of the sun are a gas
The sun is large
The sun is so large a million Earths could fit inside

And yet the sun's just a middle sized star
The sun is far away
It's about ninety-three million miles away

And that's why it looks so small
But even when it's out of sight
It shines both night and day


The sun give light
The sun gives heat

The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy


Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-crushing machine
The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between
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