Parody of “The Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton

Based on the film “The Empire Strikes Back”

Listen to the original song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfuQqkwa5I&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

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In 3 ABY, we were hiding out all nice

Along with General Rieekan on a giant ball of ice.

We shot down a probe droid that fell down from space

And we fought the Empire’s walkers at the Hoth Echo Base.

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[CHORUS]

We fired our hooks and the walkers kept a-coming.

We were losing lots of speeders but we weren’t about to yield.

They fired right back, and then we went a-running,

On off the planet Hoth into an asteroid field.

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We looked at the horizon and we see’d the walkers there;

They must have had a hundred of ‘em big metal bears.

They stomped so loud they made our hangars ring;

We manned our snowspeeders and we didn’t say a thing.

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[CHORUS]

We fired our hooks and the walkers kept a-coming.

We were losing lots of speeders but we weren’t about to yield.

They fired right back, and then we went a-running,

On off the planet Hoth into an asteroid field.

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Old Rieekan said we could take ‘em by surprise

If we didn’t fire our hooks till we looked them in the eyes.

We tripped lots of walkers, but still, we were out of luck.

They wouldn’t stop coming, and by golly, we were…well…

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[CHORUS]

We fired our hooks and the walkers kept a-coming.

We were losing lots of speeders but we weren’t about to yield.

They fired right back, and then we went a-running,

On off the planet Hoth into an asteroid field.

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Yeah, we flew from the base and we flew from the planet,

And we flew into space when we finally had to yield.

We flew so fast the Star Destroyers couldn’t catch us,

On off the planet Hoth into an asteroid field.

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We flew through the field until our hyperdrive burned out,

So we hid inside a cave to see what that was all about.

But when we started our repairs, our luck went sinking down.

This wasn’t any cave: it was a space slug we had found!

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[CHORUS]

We fired our hooks and the walkers kept a-coming.

We were losing lots of speeders but we weren’t about to yield.

They fired right back, and then we went a-running,

On off the planet Hoth into an asteroid field.

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Yeah, we flew from the base and we flew from the planet,

And we flew into space when we finally had to yield.

We flew so fast the Star Destroyers couldn’t catch us,

On off the planet Hoth into an asteroid field.