One Small X-Wing Fighter

[bnewman]

lyrics by Benjamin Newman, after "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key

ttto: "To Anacreon in Heaven" by John Stafford Smith and Ralph Tomlinson

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/ D /: G -(D) G AD / G D G - :/

 

Oh, say you can't see, by the planet's pale gleam,

What so grimly we feared at the base's last orbit!

Whose great weapon array fires so mighty a beam,

That the strongest deflectors could never absorb it!

 

/ G - D7 - / G D7 G AD / G C Am GD / G (C)G - DG /

 

But the fighters' swift zoom, and the Death Star's big boom,

Gave proof through the night, we'd been saved from our doom!

Oh, say can one small X-Wing fighter fly rings,

Around any other ship, with any number of wings?