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You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows your name
-Theme from Cheers
Today’s youtube video is the song Where Everybody Knows Your Name, written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo, and sung by Gay Portnoy. Where Everybody Knows Your Name was the theme song from the 1980s television show Cheers. The song was written specifically as the theme song for the show. Where Everybody Knows Your Name was voted as the most popular theme song of all time.
Here’s the full version of the song Where Everybody Knows Your Names from a 2004 CD release.
Here is how the song Where Everybody Knows Your Names appeared in the opening credits of the show.
Another youtube link of the full version for safety:
GARY PORTNOY: Where Everybody Knows Your Name Lyrics
(Intro Chords & Arpeggio)
Making your way in the world today, takes every thing you’ve got
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot
Wouldn’t you like to get away?
All those nights when you’ve got no lights, the check is in the mail
And your little angel, hung the cat up by its tail
And your third fiance didn’t show
CHORUS-1
Sometimes your wanna go, where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows your name
(Intro Chords & Arpeggio)
You roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee’s dead, the morning’s looking bright
And your shrink ran off to Europe and didn’t even write
And your husband wants to be a girl
CHORUS-2
Be glad there’s one place in the world, where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
You wanna go where people know, people are all the same
You wanna go where everybody knows your name
(Saxaphone Solo)
(Key change up 1/2 Step)
Where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came (3x)
Alternate Verses:
Singing the blues when the Red Sox lose, it’s a crisis in your life
On the run ’cause all your girlfriends, wanna be your wife
And the laundry tickets in the wash
Making you way to work each day, you’re riding in your car
Living in a city of 14 million, don’t know who your neighbors are
And you wonder why you feel alone?
Alternate Chorus:
Sometimes your wanna go, where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
You wanna go where people know, our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows your name
Chords
Key: Bb
Capo: I
Intro Chords & Arpeggio:
A A E E
Verse:
A E A E
A E A E
G F# Dm E
Chorus:
E (or Esus4)
A G D E
A G D E
C#m D C#m D
C#m D E A
