SchoolHouse Rock: Gravity

This streaming video is clumsily made, but at least the visual quality is good.

I'm a victim of gravity.

Everything keeps fallin' down on me.

No matter where I go

That forces that I know,

Just a pullin' 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.

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