Star Wars Shanty #11 - ’Bound for Nar Shaddaa’ (Folk Songs from the Star Wars Universe)
Part of the Star Shanty project: a collection of shanties and other folk music from a galaxy far, far away...
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BOUND FOR NAR SHADDAA
Of all the worst, filthiest, most dangerous ports that make up the galaxy’s thriving criminal underbelly, there is none more infamous than Nar Shaddaa, the Smuggler’s Moon. Orbiting the Hutt homeworld of Nal Hutta, Nar Shaddaa is the nerve center of the galaxy’s illegal trade network. As the saying goes, ’All is found in Nar Shaddaa.’
Over-eager, rookie smugglers would often underestimate the threat Nar Shaddaa posed to the inexperienced... so much so that a hyper shanty was written and sung by pirates around the Rim to mock these ignorant, often short-lived traders. The shanty used a Two Caller framework,