Good Times-Opening Theme Lyrics Subtitled & Captioned
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Watch enough Good Times and you eventually wonder what they were saying during the opening credits. Here are the actual dyn-o-mite lyrics!
This show ended over 42 years ago and is still awesome
It sure is.
Some of my best memories
@@patriciasmith267 I especially like the episodes with JANET JACKSON..."PENNY".
Seth McFarlane is doing an animated ripoff of it. I'm certain it'll kick ass.
@@miken.2847 I dunno man. The Cleveland show was a big flop.
This theme song is timeless. The raw energy of fighting everyday for a place in this world. Doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from. Life is a struggle and having family and friends to get you through, is priceless. Thank You GOODTIMES!
And the positivity/optimism!
Well Said!!!
✝️🙏🏽💜
Yea..and they werent always working together..bad things kept trying to pull them apart..that show covered some dark themes..but they made it thru
You nailed it! So insightful! Thank you!😊❤️
@@pootthatbak2578 exactly!!!!
The most powerful theme song. I could listen to this all day. I loved my childhood!
I agree with you 110% man !!
Never lost its power. Only The Jefferson theme song can match it.
FACTS
@@christophercasey6775 true! A well we're moving on up!!! To a deluxed apartment in the sky!
Growing up in the 70s and 80s
Nothing like it !!!
Woke up this morning with this song in my head. Im a 47yr old white dude from Minneapolis. Miss this show!
If you got me TV or get TV you can watch it on your phone
Good times is filmed in front of a live audience
Gang bangers
😂
JUST LIKE YO MOMMA
@@douglasbrandal5064 😂
We sure are lucky we got ‘em✨
"Hang'n In a Chow Line," said Dave Chappelle on Know Your Black People.
The most disputed lyrics
I said the same thing LOL!! I've been singing "Hanging and jiving" Makes sense to me LOL
actively watching it lmao
CHIEF lol me too
Hangin' in a chow line...good times. Ain't we lucky we got 'em... Although, hangin' and a jivin' seems more correct...
Man, it’s such a great theme song. The intro had the energy you felt when you stopped by a friend’s house, and the outro gave you the feeling that it was time to go home. It complimented the show so beautifully. These characters didn’t just feel real; they felt like your neighbors.
Perfectly said... Never thought of it that way.
Damn well said
Best comment ever bro.
If every child had a father like James on Good times there would not be any crime
My Dad was very similar to James Evans. Very strict and you did get a spanking when you did something wrong. He, too, had a few different construction jobs to keep us going.
Brought tears to my eyes because I remember the times me and my family struggled.. even in the midst, we still managed to make happy memories. #GoodTimes
God bless you and your loved ones destini...💖💐😉
Happy memories, good times and family can be such a blessing. May your struggles pay off and easy street be your landing spot!
🎶💙
I saw a documentary that showed people around the world that lived in poverty, and horrible conditions, yet, they were the happiest people you would ever meet. Why? The ONE thing they all had in common was a loving family. God Bless. :)
@@ronnie_5150 awesome 👍
I am an Italian American. I remember watching these shows. It always made me think about the struggles of life and how we all have to find ways out to survive!
Exactimundo
The theme of good times still resonates to this day...we're still s÷ing inflation, struggles to keep a roof over our heads, barely paying the bills,trying to stay on the right track..yet the spirit and happy memories we make with our loved ones the best we can...God bless you everyone stay strong and safe
Though some of the lyrics are utterly depressing, the composer ends each line with "Good times!" Reminding us there's always a way to dance through the fire. I loved this song as a child, and I cherish it as an adult ❤
*so basically you telling me i’ve been SCREAMING the wrong words this wholeeeeee entire time??🤔*
Not the only one
Me too😂😂😂
U still got milk behind yo ears sit down somewhere lol
Aaliyah Lacole LMBOOOOO me too 🤣
It’s actually hanging in a chow line
R.i.p ja’net and the rest of the cast members who passed
She up there with esther
I like your nose
lethal5 flow thank you
@@blacdharma2381 Your welcome princess, be safe
@@lethal5flow679 simp
Good times
"Ain't we lucky we got'em"
Thank you Jesus for 44 years of life
🙌❤❤❤🙌
One of the most badass sitcom intro song of all time....
Agreed and I only watch this sitcom for jimmie walker and bernadette they are hilarious!!!
Just looking out of the window, watching the asphalt grow. Thinking how it all looks hand-me-down.... Such poignant and sad lyrics.
Thus song and lyrics are A1 awesome
God yes.
shadow show And how true they are!!
shadow show Cybergaming 33 It's about enjoying the good times even through the bad.👍🏼👍🏼There is a shred of hope there.
I always thought it was, "Thinkin' how it almost teared me down," which is even sadder.
The establishing shots in the 70s sitcoms were outstanding. They showed REAL PEOPLE.
They all probably dead now so u looking at dead people
@@iamdebaby8152 why would children in 1974 be dead now?
I was wondering if these people were still alive seeing themselves on tv.
I'm 21, born in 2000, 40 years after the show ended. My dad loved this show growing up and he would always show it to us kids growing up, I'm so thankful for this show and my dad's appreciation and love for it too. Taught us many lessons and to always appreciate what you have and WHO you have!
You're beautiful
Good Times ended in 1979
DynOmite!
You think Good Times ended in 1960?
I'm 40 and I don't even remember the reruns being on in the late 80s and 90s, I started watching the show recently. Good job dad!
Anyone old enough to enjoy and appreciate and reminisce "Good times" i love you always.
Brings back a lot of memories...I miss shows like this.
I met Thelma and got to take a picture with her when she was at Ft. Knox signing autographs last week. I also bought her book. She's really nice!
Funny because I met JJ (Jimmy Walker) at Ft Campbell. lol This was in the mid 90s
My sister met her also at a base in Texas. She said she's very nice .
I’m 18 years old but this was still a part of my childhood thanks to my parents. Hella memories
I grew up in the 2000s and I watched this show it was great
Always loved the ending, fierce harmonizing at its best. Thank you Ja’Net for the Good Times. RIP beautiful lady.
I just now notice how sarcastic the song was but it was good times when u were going through rough times thats when family stuck together. Those time u had to have good times to lighten the mood of going through the rough times.
They were "good times" compared to what came next in the 80's & 90's!
Any time you meet a payment, any time you meet a friend, you're out from under, not gettin' hassled, not gettin' hustled.....all sounds pretty good to me!
Although I didn't grow up in a ghetto,
grew up middle class poor in the Pittsburgh suburbs, my white family, mainly my father went through similar circumstances of layoffs, quitting & firings. My mother worked a minimum wage job @ K Mart & held the family financially together!
Instead of the dreaded oatmeal every morning, it was the dreaded Creme of Wheat most mornings! Lol
@@hugejohnson5011 , my parents lived on credit cards & would just charge it in the 1970s! Lol
Who's living an episode of Good Times right now? LMAO.
😂😂😂✊🏿
Always have, that just life ain't it... 🤷
Still, in 2021 😩🤦🏽♀️
it reminds me of my dad who passed away in 2019. I was 8 and SCN ( southern command network) started showing Good Times. I remenber him laughing, but most of all I remember the song, the intro, the faces.
@@harlhequim same. 💞
And my Dad also passed in 2019
I just got 'laid off"...and my paperwork says TEMPORARY LAYOFF...so of course the first thing I did was google the good times theme!
At 40 years old, and looking at that skyline from the old days, I wish I can turn back the hands of time. #Flashbacks
I couldn't agree more. Have to say they were Good Times...the best of times actually.
From Wikipedia:
Theme song and opening sequence
The gospel-styled theme song was composed by Dave Grusin with lyrics written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. It was sung by Jim Gilstrap and Motown singer Blinky Williams with a gospel choir providing background vocals.
The lyrics to the theme song are notorious for being hard to discern, notably the line "Hangin' in a chow line"/"Hangin' in and jivin'" (depending on the source used). Dave Chappelle used this part of the lyrics as a quiz in his "I Know Black People" skit on Chappelle's Show in which the former was claimed as the answer.The insert for the Season One DVD box set has the lyric as "Hangin' in a chow line". However, the Bergmans confirmed that the lyric is actually "Hangin' in and jivin'." Slightly different lyrics were used for the closing credits, with the song beginning on a verse instead of the chorus.
yeah, I could never get that line. I thought it sounded like "hangin in a jara" no idea what that would mean. but hangin in and jivin makes much more sense
Thanks for that now do you know your bible that's really important
Janet Dubois sung on it as well
Man I just had to listen to this again. It came to memory when I saw JayJay Walker on that commercial lol. Remember my childhood watching this, The Jefferson's, Sanford & Son, The Redd Foxx Show etc. I miss those days. They were so much better than nowadays. These shows were awesome then. They'll always be awesome!
Don't forget All in the Family, Emergency, Adam - 12, Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and a bunch more. The 70s kicked ass, musically and in Television!
Norman Lear was a genius. There is no Norman Lear nowadays.
Rest In Peace “Wilona” 😇❤️😇❤️😇❤️🙏🏽
Any time someone in my D&D group dies, I say, "We'll always remember the good times," and play this song.
That's awesome
So I *WAS RIGHT!* ...Mostly; I always heard:
"Hangin' and ah jivin'!"
Which is pretty dang close to:
"Hangin' *IN* and jivin'!"
I *KNEW* that mess about a "chow line" just didn't set right with me!
*THANK YOU* for finally clearing this up!!
I used to watch this early in the morning, right before Gumby, in the late 1980s when I was in Jr. High, in Cook County, Illinois, just outside of Chicago's West Side...just a few miles from where the intro was filmed, and where it was supposed to take place (though I'm guessing the interior shots were likely filmed in Hollywood, CA?).
I had an ex that actually grew up in one of Chicago's more infamous projects, and she absolutely hated this program as it wasn't "true to life," but as I told her, it *IS* a fictional sitcom, that was mostly marketed towards an audience that not only had probably never even driven past a housing project, but had probably never lived in or near Chicago, or any other large Amerrican city....I mean do you think that "Leave it to Beaver" was a "realistic representation" of most families in the suburbs?! Absolutely not! This is why it's a fictional sitcom and not a real-life documentary!
I loved this show 🥰
Even as a kid that second part /the outro always was my favorite and still hits different 🔥🔥🔥
This is the greatest TV theme song ever (although the Maude theme song is a very close second.) The lyrics are evocative and tenderly descriptive of the experiences of people determined to be happy in the face of constant adversity. "Just looking out of the window watching the asphalt grow" is the type of abstract imagery someone like Laura Nyro would write. I think the Bergmans absorbed a lot of different influences. Their songs were very diverse.
For years I thought the lyrics were hangin in a chow line.
Pretty sure you're right on that.
A lot of people thought that, and they were printed that way on the DVD boxed sets when they first came out.
yours is better ,u dont wanna know mine lol
you are correct.... the jivin' lyric - SMDH
I always thought it was "hanging in a Joliet" - as in the nearby city of Joliet where the shows takes place in Chicago... It makes no dang sense... but that's what I honestly thought... go figure...!!! (LOL) ... I still say this was one of the all-time best TV theme songs ever made.
R.I.P. JA’NET DUBOIS... 😢
I’m 50. I loved these shows when I was a little kid.
It is hanging in a chow line!!
Good times, any time you meet a payment!
Good times, any time you need a friend!
Good times, any time you're out from under!
not getting hassled, not getting hustled
Keepin' your head above water!
Making a wave when you can!
temporary layoffs - good times!
Easy credit rip-offs - good times!
Scratchin' and survivin' - good times!
Hangin' in a chow line - good times!
Ain't we lucky we got 'em? good times!
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Marilyn Bergman / Alan Bergman / Dave Grusin
Good Times lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
but it's not
Lyric find is often incorrect
Correct. Hangin in a chow line!!
@@BYMY12 Not according to the song writers....
Dave Chappelle doesn't even know what it says. LOL
One of the best intro song to a TV show ever! Good Times was a great sitcom too.
Born in 61, I was still very young when Good Times was on the air. That song, oh that song, has always brought out something special in my soul. The memories just bring me back to a time in life which I call carefree. There were many problems I had while growing up a black male in America, problems of development accompanied by race and segregation for male children. Sometimes it hurt listening to this song, a soul sickness, the smell of enchantment with melancholy sickness flavor. The pain of being a black child in the 70s for some of us still hurt very much today, especially when you daydream of past memories.
isn't hangin in a chow line??
It's funny how this simple song made a huge impact on me as a kid. It's why I picked up guitar at 8 years old. Very sentimental in so many ways.
Love it, love it, it was the golden age of tv don't you think.
40+ years and still one of the best shows on TV!
Finally looked this up because of the Chappelle skit 12 years after I first saw it and even though I’ve never even seen this show, this intro/outro radiates a nostalgia that I’ve had about the Chicago I never got to see but have heard so much of. Everything about this song and the footage that it’s paired with is perfect.
Surprised myself with the "hangin' in and jivin' ", but on the Outro credits, "Watching the escargot/Thinking how they’re almost hand-me-downs," was a BIG swing-and-a-miss when I was six (and this was long in syndication). But hey -- Moms happened to love escargot! 😂
Wonderful theme song -- thanks for the memories!!
Watching the escargots...that's hilarious!! Thank you for posting.
Meanwhile, no one notices that Jay Leno is in the end credits as "the young man" #ChowLine #Jivin
Good eye!
I also like your hashtags; oh the controversy! 😅
Yes, was just going to say that!
0:57
Yes he was on an episode before. I can't remember which one but I've watched it.
This just takes me back to when life was great. Most didn't care who or where you came from as long as you were good people with a good heart you were always welcome. Love all my brothers and sisters from every dam where
Oh my god, this was literally my favorite show when I was growing up! I never missed an episode and I will always love the theme song as well❤️
Im 40 now n this almost brings tears to my eyes from all the nostalgia
Brings me back to when I was a little boy , loved watching this, bring me back
it reminds me of my dad who passed away in 2019. I was 8 and SCN ( southern command network) started showing Good Times. I remenber him laughing, but most of all I remember the song, the intro, the faces.
Those voices... So soulful
I’m glad to learn what the words really are. As a kid, I thought they were singing “hangin’ in a toilet “ and I wasn’t sure what that meant. Thanks to “Black-ish” for their “Good-ish Times” episode, which caused me to want to look it up and learn the truth after all these years.
Lmao 😂😂
When I was a kid, John Amos scared the shit out of me when he got angry. Loved him on West Wing.
Even i got it close to being right, singing it as a lil girl when it originally aired.
Me as a kid: "Hangin' and a-jivin'.....good times!" 😂🤣
yup, because that lyric is what was actually being said, that was one of the most disputed lyrics of all time
I thought it was making a WAY when you can.
I think it is
I too thought the same.
Me too that's the only part I got wrong
pretty sure it is. making a “wave” don’t even sound correct.
Total Control 871 oh okay! thanks!
from reading the lyrics, that sounds like nothing but bad times.
Update: dang i got theese much likes
No doubt its meant to be sarcasm.
i agree it is
It is chow line....i agree
Cybergaming 33 it's because you do not have the depth and intellect to emphathize with the black struggle in this country.
I know that's right J. R. Black people make a way out to NO way. Hence, Good Times.
This song is still bitter-sweet 💞
Still one of my very favorites… still watching it !! I loved everything about this show… the theme song story lines etc! So raw real and really funny!! Perfect cast… I loved every season but always missed John Amos ! He was such a big part of the show… I always loved the line… Junior I brought you in this world and I can take you out! 😅😂🤣😆 SUCH A CLASSIC SHOW!! 💙
“Daddy, can I have a raise in my allowance?” “Well how much am I giving you now, Junior?” “Nothin.” “Ok. I’ll double it.” “Yes! I’m gettin double allowance!”
I’m just gonna say if the people that actually wrote the song say it’s “hangin and a Jivin’ then damn it.. it’s hangin and a jivin’!! End of discussion.. period!!
boy quinton.....THANK YOU! The writers have cleared up the debate! Why are the talking heads still insisting on the incorrect lyric....LOL!
Narvelan Coleman exactly.. and the same reason why these incorrect people are saying they don’t care what the writers say
Is that building Cabrini green projects in Chicago
Denise Kiture yes
Cubbie 410 well I did studio work and have song lyrics wrong and they kept it to keep down recording cost and it sounded great so it was ok but a lyrics sheet had opposite of what I said
it really does sound like hanging in a chow line
scott campbell jr I just heard it lol
That what I thought it was too
Or joy line
It is
The seventies were all about jivin’
That's my late Grandfather Leon on the bicycle in the closing credits of the show.
He used to talk about that all the time, being a TV star because he was in the show lol. RIP G Leon.
This is good times and the good old days
This is was and remains one of the greatest teevee 📺 shows of all time. I am watching a rerun RIGHT NOW. 💙
1:13 I swear as a kid I thought that was John Amos riding that bike
Me too.
Absolutely awesome! Thank you for posting this! You are DY-NO-MITE!! I've waited almost FIFTY YEARS to get the correct and complete lyrics to this theme! They say all things come to those who wait, so it's lucky I'm a patient man!
The lyrics to this theme song might be one of the greatest mysteries/urban legends in all of pop culture. I’m still not convinced. I think the fact that the vocalist appears to deviate from the lyrics as written may leave the solution open to debate for years to come.
"Just lookin` out of the window, watching the asphalt grow. . . thinkin` how it all looks hand-me-down. . . great lyrics.
what does "hand-me-down" mean?
@@charlessmith263 It's like someone gives you clothes that are now too small for them. That's an example.
Yelp I made up a whole new song..didn't know those were the words..lol
I always thought it was “ thinking how it all looks sad to die” referring to the destruction of the land.
0:30 The lyrics _on paper_ might be “hangin’ in and jivin’,” but it sure _sounds_ like the singer took a little creative license.
What kind of professional recording artist, being paid to record a specific song, with specific lyrics, would “take a little creative license” and just sing their own line? Also, the “chow line” thing makes NO sense. It’s a song about hard working blu collar families, not about homeless people in a shelter.
@@trekkiejunk because a chow line isn't just for homeless...its for anyone in need...they don't discriminate..sort of like the salvation army..all are welcome..and based on low income family in Chicago struggling to pay bills and put food on table..chow line makes sense
The recent showing of All in the Family and The Jeffersons made me remember the fact that I never knew all of the words to Good Times. I had no idea of a lot of what they were saying. Thanks for posting because if I had not seen these subtitles, I NEVER would have figured out some parts of what was being said.
RIP Ms.DuBois aka Willona. Thanks for the laughs.
This is one of all times favorite number one shows!!! I love this show. these times are gone forever...
Yeah we are not allowed to have fun with things any more or else that fun police will throw a tantrum
The Chicago skyline has changed so drastically in 40+ years. So many cities looked polluted back then until the EPA put in emissions standards.
Yes it did change drastically. You notice on the video, that the John Hancock tower is shown but no Sears Tower 'or as of recent, the Willis Tower' and that's because this sitcom must have debut in the few years between the completion of the Hancock tower and the Sears Tower.
Here's something that blew my mind when I found out it was true.
Cleveland's Terminal Tower was the tallest building in the world outside of New York City between 1928 when construction was completed, until 1964 when the Prudential Building was built in Boston. Back then Chicago did have a huge downtown. But it's buildings weren't the towering mega tall buildings that exist there today.
Interesting. Chicago has always had a nice skyline. The first “skyscraper” was a building in Chicago
The 70s had the BEST theme songs, and this is definitely an example of that.
Then his contestant said 🎶"Hanging in a jury" 🎶 This skit makes me lol 😁
LMAO
loved this hook. This songs reminds you of all the good times you experience growing up. Many of us have forgotten these must have experiences. I never knew all the words, thank you'll for solving my mystery, temporary layoff, a good time
This show was good times for me.. always a place in my heart..ain't we lucky we've got them Good times!!!
Even the theme songs from the 70s are excellent music, just like ALL the 70s music.
It make total sense that the lyrics nobody could decipher was "Hangin' in and jivin'.... survivin' and jivin' rhyme!
One of the most underrated and greatest show to be on TV. The cast was Dynamite. Every episode had a positive message and values. Crazy thing is you can actually apply those lessons today. I can't believe Amazon Prime has all the episodes.
I grew up dirt poor too 😢😢 but that's where the similarity stops .... I never forgot where I came from 💝💝🔯👑♎👑🔯💝💝
Greatest tv show theme of all time! Brings back memories 🥹
This song brings me back to my life in the projects. So long ago yet so close.
I love these old t.v. them songs. This one and Welcome Back Kotter ... and others.
That really has to be the greatest TV theme song of all time. That and the theme to The Jeffersons.
Wilona sang the Jeffersons theme song if you didn't know it.
Thank you!@@lees3117
I never realized how depressing this theme song was, especially for a family was in low of socioeconomic status. The lyrics really dampen the nostalgia of such a rememberable theme song.
I ordered the entire 6 seasons from E-Bay. Been binge watching it for a week now. Sept. 2023.
I HAVE BEEN SCREAMING THE WRONG WORDS THIS WHOLE TIME!!! 🧐🧐🧐
Chamya Bell I think we all have!😕
This is my all-time favorite theme song...who can stay in a bad mood after hearing this awesome song!
@ 0:45 I love the fact that you added the citation from Jet Magazine that these lyrics ARE official.
"So forget all this 'Hangin' in a chow line...' mess, Jive Turkey!!"
Glad we have that all straightened out now!
Oh I Loved this show and this 🎶 Song !!!
Bro I was always screaming “hanging in the Jordin”😂😂
Hahahahha and not even questioning what "jordin" was right went right on singing it hahahaha. I did the same. Making up or thinking it was saying different words hahaha.
This is the best theme song. I love what it says about how some folks look at life, even when it's hard.
I think the ‘70s had some of the best tv themes
@@eaqua56 , And that show dealt with some of the most difficult subjects that were unheard of speaking about (taboo) in the 1970's, but they did-racism, declining economy, teen pregnancy and even "heroin" opioid addiction, etc.! We should have "Listened" 45-50 years ago! God Bless You and Happy Birthday in Heaven, Esther Rolle!
"TEMPORARY LAY OFF " ! that's my favorite part
I grew up watching this, every afternoon after school man... now THOSE were the Good Times...
I'm from England, we never got that show here, but Dave Chappelle brought me here, and I'm hearing hanging in a chow line
It IS Hangin' in a chow line. That singer has marbles in her mouth, though.
Hanging in a chow line don't make sense hanging in and jiving makes more sense in the 70s
This was the story of black( some say brown)people in the USA Ghettos.. govt gave us nothing .. we didn’t complain. We found good times despite the overwhelming hardship place on us
@@CaesarB227 agreed. The 1930s would be a far different matter.
dave chappelle needs to see this video :)
So it's not hangin in a chow line?
Nah, it is.
It’s hanging in a chow line
Right?! loll
I bet he will plead the 5th!
That is without a doubt, the absolute fracking BEST tv show theme of all time!!!
Always brings back Wonderful memories growing up in the 1970's!! Sure miss it!!