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John32070 · 12-04-2001, 08:58 AM

After all these years, I still can't make out a word from the song the plays over the end credits. Could it be because it's in a different language?

jaime_weinman · 12-04-2001, 11:38 AM

There are no lyrics. None. It's all just gibberish and nonsense words. Jim Ellis, who composed, arranged and sang the closing theme, writes on his website: "I had originally written the closer to be an instrumental, but on the day of recording I began joking around singing the melody that the saxophone would eventually play. Of course there were no lyrics and I was just sort of scatting gibberish. Well, Hugh [Wilson] and Tom [Wells] thought that was funny and that it made a joke about the general unintelligibility of rock lyrics. "

12-04-2001, 08:58 AM	#1
John32070 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Dec 03, 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 29	Words to the end theme After all these years, I still can't make out a word from the song the plays over the end credits. Could it be because it's in a different language?

12-04-2001, 11:38 AM	#2
jaime_weinman Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 22, 2000 Posts: 122	There are no lyrics. None. It's all just gibberish and nonsense words. Jim Ellis, who composed, arranged and sang the closing theme, writes on his website: "I had originally written the closer to be an instrumental, but on the day of recording I began joking around singing the melody that the saxophone would eventually play. Of course there were no lyrics and I was just sort of scatting gibberish. Well, Hugh [Wilson] and Tom [Wells] thought that was funny and that it made a joke about the general unintelligibility of rock lyrics. "