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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nineety-Ninee Red Balloonos\u00a0Lyrics<\/strong><\/p>\n Yousa un Mesa ina bitty Toydarian’s shop Nineety-Ninee red balloonos\u00a0 Nineety-Ninee Decision Street\u00a0 Nineety-Ninee Jedi Knights of da air\u00a0 Nineety-Ninee dreams my’ve had\u00a0 I don’t think there’s ever been a peppier song about nuclear war, and\u00a0I imagine it would be even peppier if Gungans were singing it with music by Augie’s Great Municipal Band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0 Nineety-Ninee Red Balloonos\u00a0Lyrics Yousa un Mesa ina bitty Toydarian’s shopBuy a bag of balloonos witda mula […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[267,18,84,45,268,82,4,5],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jarjar","tag-99-red-balloons","tag-gungan","tag-gungan-song","tag-gunganified","tag-nineety-ninee-red-balloonos","tag-song","tag-star-wars","tag-starwars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Buy a bag of balloonos witda mula wesa got\u00a0
Set dem free at da break o’ dawn\u00a0
’til una by una, theysa gone\u00a0
Backin at base, slug-beetles inda software\u00a0
Boom da message, “Sumptin’s out dare”
Floatin’ inda summer ganya\u00a0
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by\u00a0<\/p>\n
Floatin’ inda summer ganya\u00a0
Bombad bells, it’sa red alert\u00a0
Dare’s sumptin hair from sumwhere else\u00a0
Da war mackineek, it springs ta life\u00a0
Opens up una eager peeper\u00a0
Focusin’ it onda ganya\u00a0
As Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nineety-Ninee Reps meet\u00a0
Ta worry, worry, super-scurry\u00a0
Call out da troops now ina hurry\u00a0
Dissen whata wesa waited per\u00a0
Dissen it, boyos, dissen war\u00a0
Da Boss is onda line\u00a0
As Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ride bombad high-tech jet fighters\u00a0
Everyone’s a bombad hero\u00a0
Everyone’s a Cap’n Tarpals\u00a0
Wit orders ta identify\u00a0
Ta clarify un classify\u00a0
Scramble inda summer ganya\u00a0
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by\u00a0
Nineety-Ninee red balloonos goen by\u00a0<\/p>\n
In ebbery una a red balloono\u00a0
It’sa all over un Mesa standin’ pitty\u00a0
In dis dust dat was Theed City\u00a0
Iffen Mesa could find a souvenir\u00a0
Jusa ta prove Naboo was hair.\u00a0
Un hair is, a red balloono
Metinks of yousa un let it goen<\/p>\n