# Way back machine's TV theme song lyrics questions.

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**Created:** [June 3, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-back-machines-tv-theme-song-lyrics-questions/498582 "2009-06-03T15:01:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-back-machines-tv-theme-song-lyrics-questions/498582/41 "2009-06-04T17:55:47Z")

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> [@bup](#):
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> [Hangin’ in and Jivin’](http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/2662/backstage-with-alan-and-marilyn-bergman)
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> The most disputed lyrics in the Bergman songbook.

Obviously they are wrong as they are white and, as Richard Pryor would say, it’s a black thing-- they wouldn’t understand. That they wrote it means nothing.

Because it’s clear that the line is ‘hanging in the jungle’.

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**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-back-machines-tv-theme-song-lyrics-questions/498582/42 "2009-06-04T18:37:44Z")

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Apparently the rhyme at the beginning of Laverne & Shirley was one that Garry Marshall and his friends learned as a kid.

Sorry, no cite, this is from an interview I read with him years ago.

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