--- title: Watch Star Wars' Wookie Chewbacca sing 'Silent Night' description: Everyone's favorite Wookie, Chewbacca, gave a decidedly Star Wars-twist to the Christmas classic, "Silent Night." canonical: https://time.com/4616505/chewbacca-sings-silent-night/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-22T16:28:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:37.172Z og:title: Watch Chewbacca Sing 'Silent Night' as Only a Wookie Can og:description: This is Star Wars as you've never seen it before og:url: https://time.com/4616505/chewbacca-sings-silent-night/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ae986e0840dcef/6988b3d1656a3f035cbce3ad/chewbacca-sings-silent-night.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Chewbacca Sing 'Silent Night' as Only a Wookie Can twitter:description: This is Star Wars as you've never seen it before twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ae986e0840dcef/6988b3d1656a3f035cbce3ad/chewbacca-sings-silent-night.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Chewbacca Sing 'Silent Night' as Only a Wookiee Can > Sponsored content. 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Brown/Getty Images) Chewbacca arrives at the "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith" Los Angeles Premiere at the Mann Village Theatre on May 12, 2005 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) Frederick M. Brown—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 22, 2016 4:28 PM UTC With [_Rogue One: A Star Wars Story_](http://time.com/4589440/star-wars-rogue-one-what-to-know/) shaping up to be [the go-to film of the holidays](http://time.com/4597747/rogue-one-star-wars-reactions/), it seems only fitting that [everyone’s favorite Wookiee from a galaxy far, far away](http://time.com/4454741/chewbacca-peter-mayhew-r2-d2-kenny-baker-tribute/) is getting into the Christmas spirit by serenading us with a decidedly _Star Wars_\-flavored rendition of “[Silent Night](http://time.com/3643889/christmas-truce-1914/).” Audio of Chewbacca singing the holiday classic was actually created [by Scott Anderson in 1999](http://room34.com/chewbacca/), but thanks to a clever found footage montage by How It Should Have Ended, we can now watch Chewy sing “Silent Night” to Han Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and C-3PO. 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