Star Wars Shanty - The Trooper’s Lament

The Star Wars Shanty Project: Shanties and other songs from the Star Wars Universe. PATREON: FACEBOOK: -------------- It is a truth acknowledged galaxy-wide that wherever you find war, you will likely find at least one folk song about a soldier who enlisted and now deeply regret’s their decision. Such songs, however, were almost never heard about the Imperial military... one might surmise that the powers that be cracked down hard on that kind of creative expression. But towards the end of the Galactic Civil War, about two years after the Battle of Yavin, one song started popping up in cantinas and mess halls across the galaxy. Called ’The Trooper’s Lament,’ it painted a bleak picture of life as an Imperial grunt. No one knows where the song originated. Perhaps it was first sung by a trooper so fed up with their lot in life that they were willing to risk the rather final consequences of Impe