Gravity Song (elementary physics song)

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A song I wrote to introduce my elementary students to the concept of gravity and to 'maybe' explain why I'm always falling down! (lyrics below)
From Newton's basic laws of motion.
LYRICS
Gravity is all around,
When I fall it pulls me to the ground!
A force that you and I can’t see,
Pulls me toward you, and you towards me!
Keeps us from flying into space,
Why I fall when I trip on my shoelace,
That cool force is gravity,
Thank Isaac Newton’s apple tree!

Gravity,
A force that’s pulling you and me,
Gravity,
Pulls Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury,
Gravity,
A force that’s pulling you and me,
Down and down,
As our Earth spins round and round…

I fall,
You fall,
We all fall down!
The force of gravity
Pulling us to the ground,
You can never see it,
It never makes a sound,
It makes our mother Earth,
Go round, and round and round,
The planets have their orbits,
Because of gravity,
Pulls on flying objects,
Pulls on you and me!
Makes an apple fall,
Lets us slip down slides,
Makes a yo-yo go,
And oceans have their tides!
Gravity, we all fall down!
Gravity, we all fall down!
Gravity, we all fall down!
Gravity, we all fall down!

Hey gravity, hey gravity hey,
Don’t make me fall down today!
Here’s the reason, why I’m scared,
32 feet per second squared!
Hey gravity, hey gravity hey,
Don’t make me fall down today!
Here’s the reason, why I’m scared,
32 feet per second squared!

Gravity,
A force that’s pulling you and me,
Gravity,
Pulls Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury,
Gravity,
A force that’s pulling you and me,
Down and down,
As our Earth spins round and round…

Pulls Jupiter, Mars, and mercury,
And all the planets I can see,
Pulled in orbits around the sun,
The sun is pulling everyone?
Sun has so much gravity,
A whole bunch more than you and me!
Great big mass, big gravity,
I’d weigh much more on the sun you see…

I’d weigh much more,
On the sun you see,
Great big ball of mass,
Means more gravity,
The great amount of mass,
Means the greater the pull,
A dog has less mass,
Than a cow or a bull!
It’s not too strong,
But it’s all around,
If it was real strong,
We couldn’t jump up off the ground,
Gravity’s good,
Based on mass not girth,
Gravity’s good,
It holds us to the Earth!

Gravity, we all fall down!
Gravity, we all fall down!
Gravity, we all fall down!
Gravity, we all fall down!