Chorus:
Going down, down, down, underneath the sea
Though there's treasure to be found, pirate life is not for me.
Going down, down, down, we will see what we can see
We will know where to go through bathymetry
Going down, down, down, where we've never been before.
Now come and walk with me along the ocean floor
Sonar sounding down into the depths
Echo location then we take a few more steps (2x)
Because there's more to explore
As we walk the ocean floor

On the continental plate is the continental shelf
To know about this has scientific wealth
Down the continental slope, there's alluvial fans
The result of deposition like upon the land
An underwater canyon, a V-shaped canyon
Where sand from the land can fall into the canyon
From the shelf were it began can go deeper then the Grand
Comes out the other end to form a deep sea fan
Down from the slope is the abyssal plain
With turbidary currents, sediment it falls like rain
It’s so deep and dark beyond the reach of the sun
Only five-foot rise in a mile of run. It’s flat and smooth, so flat, so smooth
And there's life in this abyss that would be easy to miss
Without the presence of bioluminescence
It’s the only way to spot ‘em, this life on the bottom.
Now let's leave these strange creatures for some more benthic features
Sonar sounding down into the depths
Echo location then we take a few more steps (2x)
Because there’s more to explore
As we walk the ocean floor

Fissures in tectonic plates
As they move over hot spots they create
New ocean crust new ocean floor
And when they get pyroclastic then there's more:
Magma rises, lava flows
Seamounts are made, so are archipelagos
The Hawaiian Islands are some of those
The big island in the chain continues to grow
The Azores, Iceland, Galapagos
Are islands made from volcanoes
There's flat topped guyots but that's not all
Let's go find a coral atoll. It’s clear and tropical, it’s clear and tropical
In hydrothermal vents, tubeworms survive
Through chemosynthesis microbes stay alive
They don't need sun in the deep dark sea
Now let's go find some more geology
Sonar sounding down into the depths
Echo location then we take a few more steps (2x)
Because there’s more to explore
As we walk the ocean floor

When plates subduct they make a ring of fire
When plates collide, they lift the mountains up higher
A rift zone emerges where they separate
The mid-ocean ridge is from divergent plates
Historically it used to be a
Land called Pangaea, plates set free
To spread slowly a ridge continually
Across the bottom of one big sea
Ninety-seven thousand miles, it’s the longest mountain range.
It’s all volcanic so it’s constantly in change
Greater than gold, this treasure is worth
Because it is the source of brand new earth. It’s new earth, it’s new earth
Before the days of Jacques Cousteau and his boat Calypso
There’s been many ways to know about what is down below
Satellite telemetry, submersibles can help us see
As we follow our wonder to explore the world down under
Sonar sounding down into the depths
Echo location then we take a few more steps (2x)
Because there’s more to explore
As we walk the ocean floor