History Main / ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics

** The version with lyrics is better known from an episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
** It can also be found on various collections of songs released by Disney on LP, tape and CD over the past 50 years.
** ...and on at least one of the ''Disney Sing Along Songs'' videos.

* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': Turns out it's an early ThematicThemeTune. "So you think that you've got trouble/Well trouble's a bubble/So tell old mister trouble to get lost." Wheet-boomph.

* The song "Misirlou," featured in the opening credits of ''Film/PulpFiction'', is another example of both this trope and the [[WithLyrics the inverse]] at once: the original tune's lyrics were left out of Dick Dale's iconic surf rock cover that Creator/QuentinTarantino used, but then Music/TheBlackEyedPeas {{sampl|ing}}ed Dale's instrumental rendition for their song "Pump It" and added new lyrics of their own.

* The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March Colonel Bogey March]]" was whistled during its iconic appearance in ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' because the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball lyrics]] that soldiers in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII would've sung were too crude. Interestingly, the tune was composed during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and had the aforementioned lyrics added later, making this march an example of both this trope and the [[WithLyrics inverse]] at once!

* The theme tune of the SoapOpera ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' has four different theme tune lyrics, the first entitled "Anyone Can Fall In Love" (sung by Anita Dobson, one of the show's actresses), the second entitled "Glory Be" (reworked as a hymn and even featured on ''Series/SongsOfPraise'') and the third entitled "I'll Always Believe In You" (sung to the 1993 version of the theme tune). The fourth was sung by the players of Scottish soccer team Dunfermline Athletic FC and started off "We're the boys from East End Park" (the name of their home ground).

* There are actual, official lyrics to the ''Doctor Who'' theme. Jon Pertwee [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD_aLhoxc64 recorded]] them once, though he made the wise choice to treat them as poetry rather than song.

* The song "Misirlou," featured in the opening credits of ''Film/PulpFiction'', is another example of both this trope and the [[WithLyrics at once]]: the original tune's lyrics were left out of Dick Dale's iconic surf rock cover that Creator/QuentinTarantino used, but then Music/TheBlackEyedPeas {{sampl|ing}}ed Dale's instrumental rendition for their song "Pump It" and added new lyrics of their own.

* The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March Colonel Bogey March]]" was whistled during its iconic appearance in ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' because the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball]] lyrics that soldiers in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII would've sung were too crude. Interestingly, the tune was composed during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and had the aforementioned lyrics added later, making this march an example of both this trope and the [[WithLyrics inverse]] at once!

* Partial Example: for the ''{{Transformers}}'' series Armada and Energon, instrumental versions of the TitleThemeTune for the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon (which was also reworked into the theme for ''Robots in Disguise'' before these two, and for ''Cybertron'' after them, albeit with lyrics fairly close to the original version for those) were used. In this case, though, the lyrics were hardly discarded... The assumption seemed instead to be that the original theme was iconic enough that a reworked instrumental version would still bring the lyrics to mind. ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' sets the G1 lyrics to new music that could basically be called a remix of the original. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE4YPN_MRyI This video]] demonstrates that they ''are'' fairly close.[[note]]Of course, ''Animated'' then diverges into [[SecondVerseCurse a different trope]]...[[/note]]

* A theme from Music/MaxSteiner's score to ''Film/NowVoyager'' had lyrics added, and became the song "It Can't Be Wrong."

Gone in a young and restless haze\\

* The lyrics to the ''Theatre/CityOfAngels'' theme are sung on the original cast album, but not in the show. (Unusually for a musical, this is a ThematicThemeTune, not a TitleSong.) "Alaura's Theme" and "L.A. Blues" also have lyrics that aren't even used on the original cast album.

-->[[CatchPhrase "Here I come to save the day!"]]