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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 Who[[oooWhoooo, how are yo]]ooouyoooou? How do you do the things you do~ooo?''
** [[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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{{quote|''Nor-mal view, nor-mal VIEW, nor-mal VIEW, nor-mal VIEWWWWWW!''}}
** Fun fact: This tune bears a striking resemblance to the Renaissance motet ''Crucifixus II'', by Antonio Lotti.
** This trope was a [[Running Gag]] on the series; ie. ''[[Fugitive Alien]]'' and ''[[The Girl in Lovers' Lane]]'' ("With Jack E-lan, not Jack La-lanne...")
** "[[Puma Man]], [[Crowning Moment of Funny|he flies like a moron!]]"
** ''[[The Beast of Yucca Flats]]'': "[[Coleman Francis|Coooooolemaaaaan Fraaaaanciiiis]]...[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Cooooolemaaaaaan Fraaaaanciiiiiiis!]]
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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 neververy rarely been used. This was not for humorous effect, but because of the way royalties for songs work in Hollywood. Roddenberry discovered that if a song had lyrics, the lyricist got royalties every time the song was used, even if the lyrics ''weren't.'' So, he whipped up some silly romantic lyrics for the theme, made them official, and received a little extra money for every airing of the original series, and ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', and the movies, and... yeah. This understandably pissed off composer Alexander Courage and caused him to leave the series.
** 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|SNL]]''
** {{quote|''Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars...''}}
* ''[[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 AwardsAward]]s, Will Ferrell and Jack Black [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoXLu9Rz70g added lyrics] to the song played when a speech gets overtly long.
* 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 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' [[Live Episode|live show]]. It's ''30 Rock'' live!"
** 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.
 
 
== [[Music]] ==
* [[The Megas]] is a band devoted to this; particularly the classic ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' games. Their album "Get Equipped" covers all the songs from ''Mega Man 2'', and they are working on some songs from number 3. Oh, and both the lyrics and music [[Crowning Music of Awesome|are actually very good.]]
** The series itself did this in the third [[Mega Man Star Force]] game, where the theme song, Shooting Star, was given lyrics that were sung during one of Sonia's concerts. Sadly, it only showed up in text form and wasn't actually sung...
* [[The Adventures of Duane and BrandO]] is in the same vein as The Megas, though with more of a focus on the protagonists than the villains. They are most well-known for their youtube videos for such games as Final Fantasy and Mega Man 2 (over a million hits for FF!). They're damned good.
* In [[Flanders and Swann]]'s "Ill Wind," the singer laments the theft of his French horn to the tune of a Mozart French horn concerto.
* 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,''<br />
''where the dinosaurs are free-ee'' }}
* Hoagy Carmichael originally wrote "Stardust" as an instrumental--andinstrumental—and a ragtime piano solo, at that--andthat—and the lyrics were added later by Mitchell Parish. Nowadays, the words and music are generally regarded as having always been together.
* Pianist Floyd Cramer wrote "Last Date" as an instrumental. In 1960, Skeeter Davis and Boudleaux Bryant wrote lyrics, and Skeeter recorded the lyrical version as "My Last Date with You". Later on, [[Conway Twitty]] wrote his own lyrics as "Lost Her Love on Our Last Date", which was later [[Covered Up]] by [[Emmylou Harris]] as "Lost His Love on Our Last Date".
* [[E.S. Posthumus]]'s first album was fully instrumental. Their second album included lyrics in a Latin derivative.
* [[Stevie Wonder]] wrote "The Tears of a Clown" as an instrumental but couldn't come up with any lyrics. [[Smokey Robinson]] thought it sounded like a circus, and obliged.
* It's more rap than singing, but Sweetbox's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" was Bach's ''Air on the G String'' turned into R&B.
* Sheldon Harnick, Broadway lyricist best known for ''[[Fiddler Onon the Roof]]'', was commissioned to write lyrics to Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" in the late '50s, but his lyrics(known as "The Man with the Sign") were all but forgotten. The theme of his lyrics, that the freedom to express unpopular points of view is important to a Democratic society, may have been too controversial for the era of Joe McCarthey. His lyrics tell about a lone protester carrying a sign, and how the singer, while vehemently disagreeing with the protester's views, supports his right to protest, since it means he is free. You can read (most of) the lyrics [http://www.janetkagan.com/SheldonHarnick.html here].
{{quote|"But the man with the sign's a friend of mine
All alone in his proud endeavor
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* The [[Beastie Boys]]' joke song "The Biz Vs. The Nuge" samples the first half-minute of [[Ted Nugent]]'s "Homeward Bound", with Biz Markie singing along to the guitar riff.
* A common treatment to previously instrumental trance anthems, such as Darude's "Out of Control(Back For More)"(featuring Tammy Marie), Tiesto's "(Sub)Urban Train"(featuring Kirsty Hawkshaw), Rank 1's "Breathing(Airwave 2003)" and "It's Up to You(Symsonic)"(both featuring Shanokee), and Armin van Buuren's "Shivers" (featuring Susanna, originally "Birth of an Angel").
* [[Trans-Siberian Orchestra]] frequently does this. Notable example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6aZVqa3Ug "Christmas Canon"], based on Pachabel's "Canon in D".
* Straight No Chaser's "Christmas Can-Can", to the tune of [[Standard Snippet|The Galop from "Orpheus in the Underworld"]] features these lyrics:
{{quote|"Come, let's all do the Christmas Can Can,
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|Edge and Christian]] were fond of this, with a kazoo no less. Most famously ([[Funny Aneurysm Moment|or infamously]]), Chris Benoit's theme before "Our Lady Peace" added lyrics.
{{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 ].}}
 
 
== [[Theater]] ==
* [[Screen to Stage Adaptation|Screen to Stage Adaptations]]s of movies from the [[Disney Animated Canon]] often contain new songs written by using some of the original film's main themes as vocal bridges. Examples include "If I Can't Love Her" from ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' and "Shadowland" from ''[[The Lion King]]''.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toyLQzd8HrY Schroeder]" from ''[[Peanuts|You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]'' is this to [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]]'s Moonlight Sonata.
 
 
== [[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 -- Eventhis—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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* The albums ''[[Final Fantasy]]: Pray'' and ''[[Final Fantasy]]: Love Will Grow'' give lyrics to instrumental themes from the series.
** [[Final Fantasy XIII]] gives lyrics to the Chocobo theme. It also gives lyrics to it's leitmotif on the song ''The Sunleth Waterscape''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmbgCBZ86z4 This fan-created arrangement] of "[[You Are Not Alone]]" from ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''.
* [[Pig With The Face Of A Boy]] took the [[Tetris]] theme and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 put the history of the USSR to it].'' Though, to be fair, the original folk song (Korobeiniki) ''did'' have its own lyrics. Still counts, though!
* [[Okami]] has beautiful music, but except for the ending song, it's all instrumental. However, one video on [[YouTube]] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[I Fw 8 ba QS Aww]]) has [[Vocaloid]] singer Gakupo adding lyrics to arguably one of the most beautiful tracks in the game.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* YouTube user [http://www.youtube.com/user/Goldentusk Goldentusk] has a series of videos giving lyrics to movie theme tunes such as ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[The Terminator]]'', ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'', ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'', ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'', ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' and ''[[Lost]]''.
* YouTube user [http://www.youtube.com/user/hyadain2525 Hyadain2525] has an entire profile on this, crafting new songs out of familiar tunes. What gets really creepy is that he apparently provides all the voices through vocal modulation -- evenmodulation—even the female song parts. Further searches on YouTube can easily provide English subtitles for these songs. In some cases, it's an improvement to know the lyrics. Others, [[Ho Yay|not so.]]
* YouTube user [[Tobuscus]] has a series of videos titled ''[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?annotation_id=annotation_460375&p=3C14444766460071 Literal Trailers]'' in which he adds lyrics to trailers that are nothing but explaining what's going on on the screen. Many of these videos have more total views than the trailers they parody, and have made him into a featured performer at gaming conventions.
* Moosebutter's tribute to ''[[Star Wars]]'', most widely known through [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4 Corey Vidal's lip-synched video].
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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 Thethe Dark]]''`s overly long prologue crawl by singing (to the tune of the [[Star Wars]] theme) "Boring, this is so boring, this is so boring, get to the show!"
* 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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Crappy DVDs and T-shirts
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|Take Thats]]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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