Nineety-Ninee Red Balloonos lyrics
The other day I heard the classic 80’s song 99 Red Balloons and naturally couldn’t help thinking, as I do now for everything, “What would those lyrics be in Gungan?” So naturally I translated it. Here are the lyrics.
Nineety-Ninee Red Balloonos Lyrics
Yousa un Mesa ina bitty Toydarian’s shop
Buy a bag of balloonos witda mula wesa got
Set dem free at da break o’ dawn
’til una by una, theysa gone
Backin at base, slug-beetles inda software
Boom da message, “Sumptin’s out dare”
Floatin’ inda summer ganya
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos
Floatin’ inda summer ganya
Bombad bells, it’sa red alert
Dare’s sumptin hair from sumwhere else
Da war mackineek, it springs ta life
Opens up una eager peeper
Focusin’ it onda ganya
As Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by
Nineety-Ninee Decision Street
Nineety-Ninee Reps meet
Ta worry, worry, super-scurry
Call out da troops now ina hurry
Dissen whata wesa waited per
Dissen it, boyos, dissen war
Da Boss is onda line
As Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by
Nineety-Ninee Jedi Knights of da air
Ride bombad high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a bombad hero
Everyone’s a Cap’n Tarpals
Wit orders ta identify
Ta clarify un classify
Scramble inda summer ganya
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by
Nineety-Ninee dreams my’ve had
In ebbery una a red balloono
It’sa all over un Mesa standin’ pitty
In dis dust dat was Theed City
Iffen Mesa could find a souvenir
Jusa ta prove Naboo was hair.
Un hair is, a red balloono
Metinks of yousa un let it goen
I don’t think there’s ever been a peppier song about nuclear war, and I imagine it would be even peppier if Gungans were singing it with music by Augie’s Great Municipal Band.
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