Schoolhouse Rock!

"A Victim Of Gravity"

Original Air Date

September 16, 1978

This song teaches about the universal law of gravity and is performed by the Tokens in the style of 1950s doo-wop (an era made popular at the time by films such as Grease and TV series such as Happy Days).

Lyrics to A Victim of Gravity 

Down, down, down, down gravity

Helping wash the dishes

And I drop a cup

Why does everything fall down

Instead of up?

Riding up a hill I spill

And hit the ground

Wish I could fall up instead of always falling down

Down, d-down, down, down

I'm a victim of gravity

Everything keeps falling down on me

No matter where I go

That force is there I know

Just a-pulling me down, down, down, down, down

It's all around town now

It's like a magnet deep inside the ground

When I lift something up

I can feel it pulling down

It pulls me in the pool

It pulls rain down on me

I'm a victim of

Down, down, down, down, gravity, yeah

Galileo, Galileo, Galilei

He did experiments with a force he couldn't see

(Could not see, yeah)

He found that all things fall to earth at the very same speed

(Very same speed, yeah)

He didn't know it yet, but that was due to gravity

The Moon goes around the Earth

And shines its silver light

The Earth goes around the Sun

And makes the seasons right

It isn't love that makes the world go round, you see

It's the power of gravity

But please don't tell Mary Jean

Down, d-down, down, down

Without Earth's gravity

To keep us in our place

We'd have no weight at all

We'd be in outer space

The sea would float away

And so would fields and towns

Nothing pulling us down, down, down, down, down, yeah

Isaac Newton underneath the apple tree

(Apple tree, yeah)

One hit him on the head

He said, "That must be gravity!"

Newton's Law of Gravity says that every object in the Universe pulls on every other object. The bigger the object, the stronger the pull. But the greater the distance between the objects, the weaker the pull becomes.

Come back, Mary Jean!

Don't call me clumsy

Don't call me a fool

When things fall down on me

I'm following the rule

The rule that says that what goes up, comes down, like me

I'm a victim of down, down, down, down gravity

Sho-be doo, down, down, down