Beth Nielsen Chapman - Rockin' Little Neutron Star

Listen up children, got a story to tell
There's music out in space, ringing clear as a Bell
I promise that it's true, though it's hard to believe
Get your radio tuned to the frequency….here goes

Her career was finished and her bright days were done
She'd been up on the stage she'd outshined the Sun
All the other stars said it's time to move over
But man they got an eyeful when she went supernova

She's a neutron star, and she spins like a top
She's a little pulsar, man she knows how to rock
If she'd been a little bigger would have been a black hole
We can hear her rhythm on the ra…a…dio…oh…oh…oh

She's been a heavyweight since the moment of birth
A spoonful weighs as much as a mountain on earth
A thousand years ago man she lit up the skies
She's gonna be around till the universe dies

She's a neutron star, she spins like a top
She's a little pulsar, man she knows how to rock
If she'd been a little bigger would have been a black hole
We can hear her rhythm on the ra…a…dio…oh…oh…oh

[Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell:]
"This is the pulsar in the constellation Vela.
It formed when the Vela supernova took place ten thousand years ago."

She's a neutron star, she spins like a top
She's a little pulsar, man she knows how to rock
If she'd been a little bigger would have been a black hole
We can hear her rhythm on the ra…a…dio…oh…oh…oh

[Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell:]
"Here is the edge of the material expanding out
And it will continue expanding and spinning from the supernova."