Original: “The Schuyler Sisters” from “Hamilton: An American Musical” by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Parody lyrics: Elizabeth Landau


SATURN: There’s nothing Earth folks love more
Than going beyond the moon to explore
They send a bunch of robots into space
And hope they can uncover a whole new place
Take that Cassini, it’s off at Saturn
Uh, oh, but little does it know
That the moons called
Peggy, Enceladus, Dione
Orbit with excitement for the Grand Finale


ALL: Work, work,
ENCELADUS: Enceladus!
ALL: Work, work,
DIONE : Dione!
PEGGY: …and Peggy
ALL: The Saturn System!
ENCELADUS: Enceladus!
PEGGY: Peggy
DIONE: Dione
ALL: WORK!


ALL: Saturn’s rings aren’t solid objects
They’re made from clumps of ice
Pioneer saw them first
Voyager flew by twice


But, look around, look around
Cassini’s gonna do three hundred flybys
of Saturn… work!


It’s funny how all the moons are different
But we’ve all got appeal
Enceladus has hydrogen
And now we know it’s real
Look around, look around
DIONE: Enceladus, remind me where we’re orbiting
SATURN: she’s orbiting me
ENCELADUS: Dione, we’re orbiting at 10 AU
ALL: we’re orbiting at 10 AU, we’re orbiting at 10 AU
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa, WORK!

SATURN: Woo!
There’s nothing like satellites of Saturn
Balls of ice and rock making circles in a pattern
Excuse me Titan, this may sound profane
But your surface stinks like a gas called methane
There’s Iapetus, Hyperion, Calypso, oh man,
Atlas, Pandora, Tethys and Pan!
DIONE: Saturn’s so beastly!
SATURN: Ah, but I’m a mystery! Here’s some extra pages for your history!


ENCELADUS: I’ve been reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan
A little bit of Niels Bohr from Copenhagen
You want a revolution, I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration:
ALL:
We hold this truth to be self-evident:
No planets are created equal
Trina: And when I meet the head of NASA
Imma compel HER to include a Cassini sequel
All: WORK


DIONE: Look around, look around how lucky we are to be alive right now
ALL: Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now
History is happening with Cassini
And we just happen to be
On the greatest mission ever flown!
On the greatest mission ever flown!

DIONE: Look around, look
around the revolution’s happening at Saturn
ENCELADUS: I’ve been reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan
A little bit of Niels Bohr from Copenhagen
You want a revolution, I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration:


ALL:
We hold this truth to be self-evident:
No planets are created equal
Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now
History is happening with Cassini
And we just happen to be
On the greatest mission ever flown!
On the greatest mission ever flown!

All: Work, Work
Enceladus: Enceladus!
All: Work, Work
Dione: Dione!
Peggy: …and Peggy
ALL: The Saturn System!
We’re orbiting at 10 AU
Saturn: Hey, hey, hey Optional (quietly work, work)
All: On the greatest mission
On the greatest mission
Saturn: Ever floooooooown
On the greatest mission ever flown!