THE BIG, BIG, "G"

Lyrics: Alvin Kahn
Music: Francis Low

A BIG BLACK DOG AND A LITTLE WHITE CAT
WERE  FLOATING  OFF   IN  SPACE -
THEY SAILED  AROUND WITHOUT  A SOUND
IN THAT VAST AND LONELY  PLACE.
AND AS  THEY SAILED, THEY TWISTED TAILS
'TIL THEY CAME AROUND  FACE TO FACE -
THEY BOTH FELT FREE OF THE BIG, BIG "G"
IN THAT EMPTY, SILENT PLACE,
YES, THEY BOTH FELT FREE  OF  THE BIG, BIG "G"!
IN  THAT  EMPTY, SILENT PLACE.
SAID THE DOG TO THE CAT, AS HE TIPPED HIS HAT, 
WITH A LAZY, WEIGHTLESS GRACE: 
IT''S FINE  TO BE  FREE, AND  FLOAT VIS-A-VIS
AT SUCH   AN  EFFORTLESS  PACE,
YES IT'S FINE TO BE FREE AND  FLOAT VIS-A-VIS
AT  SUCH  AN  EFFORTLESS  PACE,
BUT  I'D  RATHER  RUN  ROUND  WITH MY FEET ON THE GROUND
IN  A  GRAVITY  ASSISTED  RACE!

THE CAT RAISED HER PAW, PUT  HER  SPECS  ON  HER  NOSE
IF YOU WANT THE WHOLE STORY DOG, HERE'S  HOW  IT GOES:

AN  APPLE  FALLING FROM AN APPLE TREE
FALLS  WITH  A CERTAIN  REGULARITY,
AND  A  COMET  SPINNING  RIGHT  AROUND  THE SUN
MOVES  WITH  A  PREDETERMINED  PRECISION:
THEY  BOTH  FEEL  THE  TUG  OF  GRAVITY,
THE  LONG, LONG REACH OF THE BIG, BIG "G"

OUT  IN  SPACE  WE SEEM  GRAVITY  FREE,
AND SO DOES  ALL  OF  OUR  ACTIVITY -
BUT NEAR TO A BODY OF  THE  SIZE OF  THE SUN
THE  SMALLEST SPECK  WOULD  ALMOST  WEIGH  A  TON!
IT'S  WEIGHT  IS THE  PULL OF  GRAVITY,
THE POWERFUL  TUG OF THE BIG, BIG "G".

MOST STRANGE OF ALL FOR YOU AND ME,
IS  THE  WONDROUS WORK OF RELATIVITY:
THE  LIGHT OF A STAR COMING  BY THE SUN
IS  BENT ON ITS  WAY TO OBLIVION!
IT  BENDS TO THE PULL OF GRAVITY,
THE  RELATIVISTIC REACH OF THE  BIG, BIG, "G"

THE  BIG BLACK DOG AND THE  LITTLE WHITE CAT
BEGAN  AT  LAST  TO  SINK:
PULLED OUT OF  THEIR  BERTH, AND DOWN TO THE EARTH,
BY   THE  FORCE  OF  ITS  MAGICAL LINK.
SAID  THE  CAT  WITH  A  SIGH
AS  THEY  TUMBLED  ON  HIGH,
"DOG, I HOPE YOU'LL REMEMBER  TO THINK -
THERE'S A TINY TUG 'TWEEN YOU AND ME, A SPECIAL LOVELY LINK,
THERE'S A TINY TUG, 'TWEEN YOU AND ME, A SPECIAL LOVELY LINK!"

IT'S  ALL  AMAZING, ALL  UNSEEN,
THE  FORCE  OF  NATURE'S  GREAT  MACHINE -
THE FAR-FLUNG  FIELD OF GRAVITY,
WHICH  WRAPS  US  ALL  IN ONE GREAT  SEA.
BUT  BEST  OF  ALL THERE SEEMS  TO  BE
A  TINY  LTTTLE   PULL  BETWEEN  YOU AND ME,
A  TINY LITTLE  TUG  FROM  THEE  TO  ME
THAT'S  MORE  THAN  THE  TUG OF THE BIG BIG "G" !!!