# Words to old sitcom themes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 21, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603 "2003-08-21T05:09:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/1 "2003-08-21T05:09:17Z")
In a recent conversation with my wife, GingeroftheNorth, she told me that she always thought the lyrics to the theme from the sitcom _Bewitched_ were:
“Be-witched, bewitched, bewitched,bewitched,bewitched”
and so on. I admitted that I always thought the same. In addition to that, I always sung the lyrics to _I Dream of Jeanie_:
“I dream, I dream of Jeanie. I dream, I dream of Jeanie…etc”
Does anyone else do this? We can’t be the only ones who do this, can we? Also, are there any other shows where you made up lyrics to fith the theme?
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/2 "2003-08-21T05:22:59Z")
An old girlfriend used to sing this to _LA Law_:
_Hey, hey, it’s LA Law,
Lawyer’s everywhere (everywhere),
They try cases too…_
Don’t ask me why that stuck in my head.
Now, will someone please tell **cadolphin** that _Crime Scene Investigation_’s theme song by the Who is really _Who Are You_ and not _New Orleans_? She won’t believe me.
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### Author:  [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/3 "2003-08-21T07:40:45Z")
Ok, all my life I sang the Bewitched theme the way you describe. Imagine my surprise in finding out it really does have lyrics, and the first line really is “Bewitched, bewitched.”
Link:
[http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/BewitchedSong.html](http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/BewitchedSong.html)
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/4 "2003-08-21T07:41:39Z")
Some television theme songs that we know only in instrumental versions actually have lyrics.
Star Trek
[Leave It to Beaver (“The Toy Parade”)](http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/LeaveItToBeaverSong.html)
M_A_S\*H
Bewitched
[That Girl](http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/ThatGirlSong.html)
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/5 "2003-08-21T11:23:21Z")
I always thought the Mash song did have lyrics on the TV program (suicide is painless…) at least for one or two lines- am I wrong?
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### Author:  [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/6 "2003-08-21T13:44:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by scm1001 \*
> \*\*I always thought the Mash song did have lyrics on the TV program (suicide is painless…) at least for one or two lines- am I wrong? \*\*
I remember watching it both originally (starting in 1974 or so - I didn’t get some of the jokes at that age) and endless times in reruns (where opening/closing segments were often butchered) and never remember any sung lyrics (I often thought it quite amusing that such a downbeat song about suicide was played in a breezy, uptempo manner for the closing credits).
One thing I keep forgetting to google - the words to the Original ‘Bob Newhart’ show (well, the Chicago Psychologist one), which does have lyrics since I (vaguely) remember them being sung on some TV awards show in the 80s…
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/7 "2003-08-21T14:39:06Z")
I must be thinking of the movie MASH then
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### Author:  [@evilskippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilskippy)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/8 "2003-08-21T14:42:29Z")
**SirRay** , The M_A_S\*H song is “Suicide is painless”. It was never sung in the t.v. show, but it was sung in the original movie.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/9 "2003-08-21T14:51:39Z")
_That Girl_ had—at least early on—lyrics sung during the opening credits. A friend of mine always heard the line “She’s tinsel on a tree” as “She’s a tonsilectomy.”
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/10 "2003-08-21T14:53:54Z")
I actually know the lyrics to the _closing_ theme of _All in the Family_, a song called “It’s All Over Now.” Carroll O’Connor once sang it on some variety show (he had an excellent singing voice) and for some reason it stuck in my head.
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/11 "2003-08-21T14:58:46Z")
…Hoss and Joe and Adam know that Cartwright is the name…
That’s all I can recall of the song “Bonanza.”
I’m also partial to Bill Murray’s lyrics to the theme song from “Star Wars”:
“Star Wars
Those crazy Star Wars…”
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/12 "2003-08-21T15:31:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by plnnr \*
> …Hoss and Joe and Adam know that Cartwright is the name…
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> That’s all I can recall of the song “Bonanza.”
[Lyrics to “Bonanza”](http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/lyrics.html)
There was a TV special (which I may or may not have on tape) which included a clip of the cast singing the theme.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/13 "2003-08-21T16:29:58Z")
**The Andy Griffith Show** theme was actually called “The Fishin’ Hole.” [Here](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/thefishi.htm) are the lyrics (and chords, no less). Check out the splendid version of the song by Henry Kaiser.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/14 "2003-08-21T17:48:11Z")
The closing theme on _All in the Family_ is actually [Remembering You](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/8663/lyrics.html) (which does begin with the line “Got a feelin’ it’s all over now”), by Roger Kellaway and Carroll O’Connor. I bought the sheet music and used to play it on the piano.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/15 "2003-08-21T18:20:51Z")
The following all had lyrics:
Golden Girls (Thank You For Being A Friend)
Bosum Buddies (My Life, by Billy Joel)
Greatest American Hero (Walkin’ On Air)
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/16 "2003-08-21T19:27:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by plnnr \*
> \*\*I’m also partial to Bill Murray’s lyrics to the theme song from “Star Wars”:
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> “Star Wars
> Those crazy Star Wars…” \*\*
Which, for some reason, reminds me of Albert Brooks and another guy singing lyrics to the theme from the _National Geographic_ specials at the start of _Twilight Zone: The Movie_.
“Look at that old man,
He kinda looks like an ape!”
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/17 "2003-08-21T21:16:31Z")
Bill Murray once mimicked a lounge singer on SNL who played the music to **Star Wars** and invented the words:
“Star Wars… nothing but _Star Wars_…”
so it sounded also like "Feelings…nothing but _feelings_
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Winker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_Winker)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/18 "2003-08-22T00:22:39Z")
_WKRP in Cincinnatti_ had lyrics:
"Baby, if you’ve ever wondered…
wondered what ever became of me
I’m livin’ on the air in Cincinnatti
Cincinnatti, W.K.R.P.
Got kinda tired packin’ and unpackin’
town-to-town, up and down the dial…"
(Someone else can finish it :))
Here’s some topical trivia for you: the song they play over the closing credits for WKRP are not words at all - that band was just sining nonsense as part of a demo and was going to add lyrics later, but the producer (or whoever) liked it as is.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/19 "2003-08-22T02:14:04Z")
From the early 60’s…Harrigan and Son…
_H - A - double R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that’s in me; Divil a man can say a word agin me.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see,
Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That’s me!_
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/20 "2003-08-22T06:21:09Z")
The other guy at the start of the Twilight Zone movie was Dan Ackroyd.
The final WKRP verse is:
“Baby, you and me were never meant to be.
Just maybe think of me, once in a while.
I’m at WKRP in Cincinnati.”
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