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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Cantonese Hong Kong dub of ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' added lyrics to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfeGKwaVNI ending theme]. With a male chorus. It actually sounded really cool. The rearrangments and the lyrics [[The Cover Changes the Meaning|made it]] a [[National Anthem]] kind of song, if you know what the chrous translates into:
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{{quote|The Words to Well-Known Doctor Who Themes: Although the location-footage music in "City of Death" is instrumental, everyone who hears it instinctively knows that the words are, "Running through Paris, we're running through Paris, we're running through Paris, we're running through France"...}}
** There's more - for example, the lyrics to "The 'Mysterious TARDIS Energy' Theme" are [[Deus Ex Machina|"De-e-e-us ex ma-chi-na..."]]
** What about the main theme? ''Doctor
** [[The Late Late Show|Craig Ferguson]] created his own lyrics for the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' theme for the 11/16/10 cold open, which wasn't used due to [[Executive Meddling]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4 Here's the "lost" cold-open.]
** Bucking the trend, [[Bill Bailey]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68wJIQbCtlI likens the ''Doctor Who'' theme, when slowed down, to ''Belgian Jazz''] -- and performs it as a [[Spoken Word]] piece in French.
{{quote|''Je suis... Docteur Qui.''}}
* For a non-comedic example, the last season of ''[[Roseanne]]'' added lyrics to what had been an entirely instrumental tune for all past seasons.
* The theme tune to ''[[The X-Files]]'' was a victim of this. Allegedly the words go: "The X-Files is a show ... with music by Mark Snow..." Whistle it, and be doomed to [[Ear Worm|forever have it in your head]].
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** ''[[Escape 2000]]'': pretty much every piece of background music was given lyrics containing the phrase "Leave the Bronx". Even the end theme, in which Mike was nearly driven insane by Tom singing "Leeaaaave Bronx, baby leeeeaaaave Bronx..."
** ''[[Fugitive Alien]]'': "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2jFO_DaRQ This is the song written for the train chase/This is the chase, Rocky and Ken/He TRIIIIIED TO KILL ME WITH A FORKLIFT!]"
* The theme from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' has [http://www.hostropolis.com/april/mp3/uhuru.mp3 lyrics], which have
** Roddenberry didn't discover this, Hanna-Barbera did.
* In ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'', a version of the theme song with lyrics is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p6WSPiewNc sung by Gina.]
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''Turn on your T.V. set,''
''Turn on your T.V. and see!'' }}
* [[Bill Murray]] did this with the main theme of ''[[Star Wars]]'' on ''[[Saturday Night Live
* ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' had Carrie Fisher sing the Life Day song to the tune of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' theme...
* In one of the [[Academy
* Eddie, from the late 90's sitcom ''Malcolm & Eddie'', came up with a get rich quick scheme that involved invoking this trope. One theme he added lyrics to was the ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' theme.
* "Live show, it's a ''[[30
** And for the west coast: "Let's talk about sushi. Portland, Vegas, Glendale, this is ''30 Rock''!"
* Some fans of [[Game of Thrones]] have come to associate these lyrics to the [[Ear Worm|incredibly catchy]] theme song:
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''Time to watch, Game''
''Game of Throoooones...'' }}
** And then there's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efD3nmwF-IM this] -- ''Game of Thrones'' as an [[Anime]], with its theme recast as a typical [[Anime Theme Song]] -- in Japanese.
* According to [[Joss Whedon]] on one DVD commentary track, the theme song to ''[[Angel]]'' goes ''"Angel iiis a vampire/Who fiiights criiime with hiiis friends..."''
* [http://www.hostropolis.com/april/mp3/quincy.mp3 An MP3 of someone singing unofficial lyrics] to the theme music of ''[[Quincy]]'' can be heard at radio personality [[April Winchell]]'s website.
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* This is, more or less, the entirety of the genre of vocalese. Manhattan Transfer's version of "Birdland" (an instrumental composition by the jazz fusion band Weather Report) is a good example.
* Barbershop example: the Gas House Gang ('93 world champs) did this by putting a plot summary of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart's]] ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' to the much-more-well-known tune of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTf4D9Zk8lc Eine Kleine Nachtmusik]''.
{{quote|''[[Jurassic Park|Ju-urassic Park]], Ju-urassic Park,''
''where the dinosaurs are free-ee'' }}
* Hoagy Carmichael originally wrote "Stardust" as an instrumental—and a ragtime piano solo, at that—and the lyrics were added later by Mitchell Parish. Nowadays, the words and music are generally regarded as having always been together.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[
{{quote|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}zAFNLP7qmIQ Chris Benoit is here and he's really mad. Chris Benoit is here and he's really an-gry ].}}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* "[[wikipedia:Omoide wa Okkusenman!|Omoide wa Okkusenman!]]" (aka, the [[BGM]] for Dr. Wily's level from ''[[Mega Man 2]]'', given lyrics by a still yet unknown individual) is one of the most [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] examples of this—Even ''[[JAM Project]]'''s [http://daitrombe.net/attachments/58858/Jam_Project_-_Omoide_wa_Okkusenman.mp3 gotten in on it]{{Dead link}}
** The arranged soundtracks for ''9'' and ''10'' have vocal versions of each game's ending theme. The one for ''10'' ups the ante by arranging the three Special Stage themes into a single epic vocal piece.
* ''[[Touhou Project]]'' is a game of stage music and boss music and can not avoid this. The sheer amount of lyrical remixes to themes has rewarded its fans with such things as:
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* [[That Guy With The Glasses|Chester A. Bum]] is known to do this at the end of certain movie reviews, including his ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' and '[[X Files]]: I Want to Believe' reviews. [[Hilarity Ensues]], even though they're usually only two lines long.
** This has since become a [http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/theme-lyrics regular feature of the site], the aptly named "Songs That Don't Need Lyrics But I Added Them Anyway HA!"
** [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] also mocked ''[[Alone in
* A number of video game tunes have been given lyrics by the remixers at [[OverClocked Remix]]: "Dreams Come True", "Permutation", "Tororian Love Song", "The Incredible Singing Robot", "Summertime", "The Place We Know", "Forever Until Tomorrow" and [http://ocremix.org/album/4/doom-the-dark-side-of-phobos Darkness Dawning] are among the results.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVpWUsRocdc&feature=player_embedded This is not Roy's Castle]" is a version of this for the ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' castle music, and is surprisingly catchy.
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Irate Gamer is a pee-hole }}
* At the end of the ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' review for [[Guitar Hero|''Guitar Hero World Tour'']], Yahtzee included an [[Easter Egg]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8jMn2Kcgs consisting of him adding lyrics to the theme tune of] [[Deus Ex]], highlighting all the pros and cons of the game, and adding a few [[Take That]]s at [[John Romero|Ion Storm]].
* While they already have lyrics, it's become something of a minor meme on [[Image Boards|/m/]] to come up with English versions of various [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Anime Theme Song]] lyrics. Original thread is archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20091125133655/http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/m/thread/3338405 here]. The ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' one at the beginning is particularly epic.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'''s "Chocobo Mix" gets lyrics in [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/58184 this Final Fantasy Tribute.]
* [[YouTube]] user [http://www.youtube.com/user/brentalfloss Brentalfloss] has a series of ''With Lyrics'' songs put to various video game melodies.
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