A couple of weeks ago I woke up to a message that made my day, my week, and really, my month! The fellow gave me permission to share it, so here goes:
Hello Gray,
I was flipping through a Star Wars book with my 2-year-old this morning (The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, a collection of concept art for the original trilogy) and she was very interested in the tauntauns on Hoth.
In the car on the way to daycare, she started crying and saying “Want tauntaun song please … want tauntaun song … tauntaun song please!” I tried explaining to her there is no tauntaun song. Then, I tried making up my own (it was … not good) and I think she actually stopped loving me for a few minutes.
Finally, I went to Spotify (don’t worry, I was stopped in traffic) and found “Tauntauns to Glory.” We listened to it three times.
So, anyway, thanks for writing a song about tauntauns!
How about that? I thought that was marvelous.
(Image: “Luuk (sic) on Tauntaun,” by Anton Van Dort, on Deviant Art under Creative Commons.)
And if you don’t know what all that fuss was about, you can queue up “Tauntauns to Glory” on Spotify or listen free at this link!
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What I want to know is, if Daddy didn’t know your song, where did his little girl hear it? Congratulations on becoming some family’s fond memory when she reaches adulthood.
The way I took it was that she just wanted *some* song about tauntauns, not any one in particular. But, I could be wrong!
Thanks, Matt!
G
I searched for tauntaun on Spotify and the song popped up!
We still listen to it often. She will sing the chorus randomly, and sometimes she’ll say different animals instead of tauntauns.