Schoolhouse Rock: Interplanet Janet
Today, I wanted to include a different YouTube video. It’s a video made in the 1970’s to help kids learn. . . about the solar system. It’s a music video about the sun and the planets, but it’s different from most music in English I think: the words are pretty easy to understand!
If you like this video, there are a lot of “Schoolhouse Rock” videos on YouTube. . . some of them are even on grammar! And all of them, I think, are pretty easy to understand.
To help you understand this video, I’ve included the lyrics—that’s another word for ‘the words’—which I got from the schoolhouse rock website.
They say our solar system is centered ’round the sun,
Nine planets, large and small, parading by.
But somewhere out in space,
There’s another shining face
That you might see some night up in the sky. Interplanet Janet, she’s a galaxy girl,
A solar system Ms. from a future world,
She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen,
No, there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen.
She’s been to the Sun, it’s a lot of fun,
It’s a hot-spot, It’s a gas!
Hydrogen and helium in a big, bright, glowing mass. It’s a star, it’s a star! So Janet got an autograph!
Mercury was near the Sun so Janet stopped by,
But the mercury on Mercury was much too high, so
Janet split for Venus but on Venus she found
She couldn’t see a thing for all the clouds around.
Earth looked exciting, kind of green and inviting,
So Janet thought she’d give it a go.
But the creatures on that planet looked so very weird to Janet,
She didn’t even dare to say hello.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane! Why, it must be a UFO, but it was:
Interplanet Janet, she’s a galaxy girl,
A solar system Ms. from a future world,
She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen,
No, there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen.
Mars is red and Jupiter’s big
And Saturn shows off its rings.
Uranus is built on a funny tilt
And Neptune is its twin,
And Pluto, little Pluto, is the farthest planet from the Sun.
They say our solar system is not alone in space.
The Universe has endless mystery.
Some future astronaut
May find out that what he’d thought
Was a shooting star instead turned out to be… Interplanet Janet, she’s a galaxy girl,
A solar system Ms. from a future world,
She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen,
No, there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen.
