Parody of “Jim Bridger” by Johnny Horton

Based on the original Star Wars trilogy

Listen to the original song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vym-lrmLl4&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

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[Verse 1]

Once there was a smuggler man who couldn’t pay his debts

Yet, he deserves the front row seat in History’s Greatest Hits

He forgot more about the Wookiees than we will ever know

He spoke the language of Itchy*, Chewbacca and young Low**

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[Chorus]

(Let’s drink to old Han Solo, yes, lift your glasses high)

As long as there’s the New Republic don’t let his memory die

(That he was making history never once believed this man)

But I doubt if we’d been here if it weren’t for men like Han

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[Verse 2]

He spoke with General Rieekan and said listen here, old guy

My friend is out there freezing, and I won’t just let him die

Let me go out on tauntaun, I’ll find Skywalker tonight

Rieekan didn’t let him go, but Han saved Luke all right

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[Chorus]

(Let’s drink to old Han Solo, yes, lift your glasses high)

As long as there’s the New Republic don’t let his memory die

(That he was making history never once believed this man)

But I doubt if we’d been here if it weren’t for men like Han

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[Verse 3]

There’s poems and there’s legends that tell Skywalker’s fame

Yet, compared to Han Solo, Luke was civilized and tame

These words are from Skywalker’s lips if you take it from that man

If there’s a man who knows this god forsaken space it’s Han

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[Chorus]

(Let’s drink to old Han Solo, yes, lift your glasses high)

As long as there’s the New Republic don’t let his memory die

(That he was making history never once believed this man)

But I doubt if we’d been here if it weren’t for men like Han

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*Chewbacca’s father from the Star Wars Holiday Special.

**Lowbacca, Chewbacca’s nephew from the Expanded Universe.