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I was a big fan of TV show, WKRP In Cincinnati. Perhaps you were, as well. If so, you may have wondered about the lyrics to its closing theme song which weren't particularly intelligible. Well, the mystery was solved after a while and I'll let the all-knowing, all-seeing Wikipedia give you the answer…

The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits," was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he improvised a semi-comprehensible story about a bartender to give an idea of how the finished theme would sound. Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberate gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs. Because CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would hear the closing theme lyrics.

So there's your answer: The lyrics were supposed to be incomprehensible. Still, that did not stop someone from finally figuring out what they actually said…

There you are: The accurate, fully-decoded lyrics to the end them of WKRP in Cincinnati. Unless you prefer this version…

Or this version…

Or this one…

Or this one…

…or any of about a dozen others. Next time I have a bunch of friends over, I think we'll do a sing-along.