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I have it on good authority that these are the words to The Theme From Star Wars:
Star Wars,
Wonderful Star Wars,
Tremendous Star Wars,
Stupendous Star Wars
I have not been able to determine if there are more words.
A friend of mine was fairly contemptuous of John Williams, who wrote all of the music for the Star Wars movies. This friend said that all of John Williams' music sounds the same. Of course, much of it does sound the same, in the same way that Wagner's Der Ring des Niebelungen sounds the same, and for much the same reason. There is a great deal of continuity in the series of stories. Repetition is a story telling device here, as well as a musical device. And I was surprised by the tumble of emotions that I experienced, when the fourth movie (Episode I) begins just like the first. Continuity. And of course, John Williams' music does not sound all the same.