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katierosefun · 4 years ago
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space shanty anon back again (i know, will I ever shut up!) but, as I was listening through shanties today, I found one that struck me as very ObiWan centric (specifically after the war, don't picture him singing it quietly to tiny Luke on the way to tattooine bc then you'll become a crying mess like me) it's called "Here's a Health to the Company", don't picture him thinking about satine and anakin and all the people he's sung this with and now lost as he braves through each verse for luke
aww, anon, i love your sea shanty recs and your takes, because!!! i appreciate them, and they make me happy!! 
and oh gee, yeah okay so i’m listening to here’s a health to the company right now, and this is the kind of shanty that i can very easily picture being sung very, very quietly, so that image of obi-wan humming/singing it quietly makes me want to cry too :’(( 
also....braving through each verse for luke: 
come lift up your voices, all grief to refrain / for we may or might never all meet here again
ha. this line with obi-wan “all my friends are dead” kenobi....ha. 
and if ever i should meet you by land or by sea / i will always remember your kindness to me
oh no. oh dear. oh no....no i don’t like this because you ever think about how obi-wan must have thought about how like...there are so many people that he never got to say a real goodbye to/might have left things on a bad note with (ha. hahahahaa) and still. is trying to think about at least the good memories ha hahahaaa
but also.....you know, now i’m listening to this version of the song, and now i feel oddly sad because it’s a little livelier, so now i have this funny little idea of luke somehow remembering bits and snatches of a song that he must have heard as a kid.......like, as the galaxy celebrates the fall of the empire, this song actually picks up, and luke gets excited because wait, he knows this song, he remembers this song, and this is where he gets leia and han to join, and it’s just. things come full circle this way. 
(as the voices of the living reach the stars, obi-wan smiles.) 
**edit: also, i feel like it’s worth noting that it is because of this ask that my current writing vibes playlist now has a bunch of sea shanties--
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