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Author's Note: The original version of this shanty is called "Roll Northumbria", and can be found on the tube here: watch?v=-d3XHQVMHDM
ROLL, EXECUTOR, ROLL
Twas after the Rebels took down the Death Star;
She was commissioned to hunt them afar.
Built the Executor, Kuat Drive Yards;
Roll, Executor, Roll!
For when the Rebellion from Yavin did flee,
The call came on high from the powers that be
To build a destroyer, the biggest yet seen.
Roll, Executor, Roll, me boys;
Roll, Executor, Roll!
Executrix, Tyrant, and Emperor's Call;
She the destroyer to outsize 'em all.
Twas she that would cause the Rebellion to fall;
Roll, Executor, Roll!
She was completed, the pride of the line,
Christened and set with a bottle of wine;
But what lay ahead could no admiral divine.
Roll, Executor, Roll, me boys;
Roll, Executor, Roll!
And it's one for the Death Star above,
Two for the Empire we love!
And it's three for the Rebels we'll send down below;
Roll on, Executor, Roll!
Roll, Executor, Roll!
And it's one for the Death Star above,
Two for the Empire we love!
And it's three for the Rebels we'll send down below;
Roll on, Executor, Roll!
Roll, Executor, Roll!
Now know Kuat's workmen: beware the command
That comes down on high from the Emperor's Hand;
Remember though ruler, he's still just a man.
Roll, Executor, Roll!
For the shields they were built much too small for her frame;
And into the bridge a ship barreling came.
She hit the Death Star and burst into flame;
Roll, Executor, Roll, me boys;
Roll, Executor, Roll!
And it's one for the Death Star above,
Two for the Empire we loved!
And it's three for the Rebels who sent us below;
Roll on, Executor, Roll!
Roll, Executor, Roll!