Chic, IL Imperial Rhapsody

Found this on another forum. Made me laugh. I hope it does the same for you, too

"Imperial Rhapsody," by Queen
(sung to "Bohemian Rhapsody")

LANDO: This is the good life
This is a fantasy
Working on Bespin
An escape from Reality.
LEIA: Open your eyes
Stand up to these guys and see.
LUKE: I'm just a farm boy, I need some sympathy
Cuz who's my dad, I dunno
Little whine, little moan.
HAN: Anywhere the Force goes, doesn't really matter, to me.

PIETT: Vader just killed a man.
Raised an arm up in the air
Now his life is no longer there.
Vader, we had just begun,
And now I've gone and lost the reb-el scum.
Vader, ooooooo.
Didn't mean to make you mad
If I'm not alive again this time tomorrow,
There'll be a new admiral, as if nothing ever happened.

YODA: Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time.
LUKE: Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and learn the Force.
PIETT: Vader, ooooooooo.
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

LUKE: I see a little silhouetto of a man
Palpatine, Palpatine, can it be the Emperor?
Thunderbolts and lightning, very very hurting me!
R2-D2, R2-D2,
R2-D2, R2-D2,
R2-D2, Where'd ya go? C-3PO O O O O O OH!
I'm just a farmboy, nobody loves me.
REBELS: He's just a farmboy, with a dead family.
Spare him this life of such mendacity!
HAN: Spice'll come, spice'll go. Jabba let me go.
JABBA: Bo shuda! (NO, we will not let you go)
HAN: Let me go!
JABBA: Bo shuda! (We will not let you go)
HAN: Let me go!
JABBA: Bo shuda! (We will not let you go)
HAN: LET ME GO!
JABBA: WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
HAN: LET ME GO!
JABBA: WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
HAN: LET ME GO!
JABBA: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

C3PO: Oh R2-D2, R2-D2, R2-D2, Come along.
LEIA: C-3PO has a rebel put aside for meeeee, for meeeeee, for MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

(Storm troopers start headbanging)

LUKE: So you say you're the dear old dad of mine?
But you cut my hand off and left me to die!
Oh Vader, can't do this to me, Vader.
I know there's some good, I know there's still some good in you.

OBIWAN: May the Force be with you.
Use the Force to see.
May the Force be with you,
May the Force be with you, alwaaaaaaaaaaaaays.

HAN: Anywhere the Force goes, doesn't really mat-ter, to meeeeeeee.

 

YES!!! Love that!

 

Have Mav that was great! Does anybody know if the tune is on CD?

JediLars

 

The real funny thing is that I put together a Demented polka tape for Bobafemme recently, so I have "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bohemian Polka" running through my head when I read that.

Phil

 

Yes, you can find that song on any of the following cds:

Classic Queen
Crown Jewels
Greatest Hits I & II
Live At Wembley '86
Live Killers
Live Magic
Night At The Opera
Platinum Collection
"Wayne's World" soundtrack

Among others..... (God, I miss those smilies!)

 

This is probably one of my most favorite songs ever, and I love what they've done to it! Yes, I was ROTFL.
Funny, funny!

 

I'm so glad I came in to the office early this morning. Very people here yet, so I read it with the tune going in my head...

Absolutely hilarious! Usually I think that themed lyrics to popular tunes are only mediocre, too contrived, but hey, I was never completely sure I understood that damn song anyway, and these words made a lot more sense to me. And at least Bo Shuda means something. The German-sounding word Queen uses is NOT an actual word according to German citizens I have asked.

Thanks for a great way to start the day, XMav!
And thank you too, JediJeff, for your great talent at stating the obvious.

 

The great thing about "Bohemian Rhapsody" is that, with a bit of creativity and fun, it can be adapted to just about any fictional setting. So the "Imperial Rhapsody" was inevitable...

Thom