326-3827

[bnewman]

326-3827, the number of the trash compactor unit in Star Wars: A New Hope, may not have anything in common with 236-6132 besides being someone's telephone number, but something about the tone of the song seemed to fit the scene, setting it up to join a long list of Dave Carter/Star Wars parodies — once I figured out the extremely tangled rhyme scheme.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "236-6132" by Dave Carter

 

listen to this song

 

/: G C A(m) D / Em C D (Am)D :/

 

326-3827 is the number on the door

Of the trash compactor where your fine leadership has brought us

I should think that makes us even— oh, so now we're keeping score?

And about this foul air— don't forget they almost caught us!

 

/ Em C D - / Em C EmC D / " / " /

 

Ah, the rancid reek of bantha piss

Did you say you have a bad feeling about this?

But if you have a better plan, you can say this was a blunder

326-3827 is the unit number

 

326-3827 is the one you must shut down

Or it won't be very long before we all become much flatter

Does this comlink even send? Listen, Threepio, you clown

Tell Artoo to get it done, or this mission doesn't matter

 

And if some tentacle lurks under here

Even it won't wait around to see us smeared

Bracing beams begin to bend, so turn that smirk into a frown

326-3827 is a trash compactor

 

/: Em D Am CG [1./[2. CG * ]/ CG CAm D - :/

 

I am not looking for no champion of my freedom

I am anything but anybody's foundling

Sometimes I feel like I must wonder

Were you ever even slightly clear

On how we're getting out of here

Or hoping someone might appear

To lead with spunk and not with fear

While angry Storms go blastering around me

 

326-3827 is one place we won't go back

Though my heart is howling pain in the wake of this disaster

'Cause one planet's gone from heaven, and our trail is being tracked

Try to shake the chase in vain while TIE fighters bank and blaster

 

The Rebellion has but one recourse

We watched your teacher wink and fade into the Force

But when the data has been scanned and our fighter wings attack

326-3827 won't be coming back