Come on, I know lots of you out there have words in your head that go with the Star Wars theme. I’ve heard that John Williams’ niece used to sing
Star Wars, dadada Star Wars
Make lots of money
For Uncle John!
I always sing the words my mom made up:
Star Wars, jolly old Star Wars
Jolly old Star Wars
Rolling along!
So, add your lyrics here.
At the end of the Star Wars Holiday Special, as everyone celebrates Life Day, Leia sings a song loosely based on the Star Wars theme.
We celebrate a day of peace.
A day of harmony.
A day of joy we all can share together joyously.
A day that takes us through the darkness.
A day that leads us into might.
A day that makes us want to celebrate the light.
A day that brings the promise that one day, we’ll be free to live
To laugh, to dream, to grow, to trust, to love
To be.
The melody doesn’t really match that of the actual theme. I’d dig up my copy of it, but I’d start having Wookie/Harvey Korman/Bea Arthur nightmares again.
Star Wars!
Give me those Star Wars!
Nothing but Star Wars!
Don’t let them end!
(With apologies to Bill Murray)
hyphenated so you can sing along:
(introduction with “Star Wars” title pushing back is instrumental, when we get to the main theme:)
Star Wars
With Luke Sky-wal-ker
Leia, Chew-bac-ca
and Han Solo.
With O-bi Wan Ken-o-bi
Ar-too De-too and
See Three-pi-o.
My mother once wrote lyrics “Star Wars, into the future…” That’s as far as she got.
Oh man, anyone who hasn’t seen this definitely should. It’s so bad. No, you don’t understand, its so, so, so bad. Really. It’s that bad. And I sat through APE half a dozen times. (A triumph for joanna kerns, who didnt use that name back then.)
It’s available through Sites that Dare Not Speak Their Name.
But beware – men have been known to watch it…and go mad.
I could only stand about the first 15 minutes. After that, I just couldn’t take it any more! (And usually I have a very high tolerance for dreck; I love B movies…) So I didn’t make it to Leia’s song, but maybe we’ll re-download it and try to survive.
I gotta go with Nonsuch, Bill Murray’s lounge singer’s are the definitive lyrics to Williams’ title theme. His lyrics went on for several verses too (though I can’t remember them).
“And hey. How 'bout that nutty Star Wars Bar?
Can you forget all the creatures in there?
And Hey, Darth Vader in that black and evil mask
Did he scare you as much as he scared me?”