‘I'm Alright’ is a song written and performed by American rock musician Kenny Loggins. It was used as the theme music for the 1980 comedy film Caddyshack. The track was released as a single in 1980 and then reached the top 10 of the U.S. singles chart. Eddie Money makes a guest appearance in the song's background chorus. The song is also one of the most frequent choices in Loggins' concert, and included in all three of his official concert material releases – Kenny Loggins Alive, Live from Grand Canyon, and Outside: From the Redwoods.
The song plays at the beginning and end of the film. The song is associated with the gopher who fends off the attacks of overeager and slightly deranged groundskeeper Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), who blows up most of the golf course in an attempt to kill the creature. After the blast, the gopher emerges, safe and sound, and dances to this song.
Loggins saw a rough cut of the movie before he wrote the song. He used the character Danny Noonan, who was a caddy with hopes for a brighter future, as inspiration. Loggins told the St. Petersburg Times: "The character was trying to figure out where he fit. But at the same time, he wanted people to leave him alone and let him find his own way. So, I wanted to grab him and summarize that character, and that's what 'I'm Alright' is doing."
When Loggins launches back into the chorus partway through the song, he stutters on the lyric, singing, "I- I'm Alright," which was a happy accident. "I actually misjudged the entrance. In the arrangement, I delayed that entrance but I forgot when I was doing the lead vocal," he told Rock History Music. Then he remembered when the Mamas & the Papas had a similar fortuitous flub in ‘I Saw Her Again,’ so he decided to keep it in.
Label – Columbia
Songwriter – Kenny Loggins
Producers – Kenny Loggins, Bruce Botnick
SONG LYRICS
[Chorus]I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be? (I'm alright)
I'm alright
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don't ya just let me be?
[Verse 1]
Do what you like
Doin' it naturally
But if it's too easy
They're gonna disagree
It's your life
Isn't it a mystery?
If it's nobody's business
It's everybody's game
[Pre-Chorus]
Got to catch ya later
No now, cannonball it right away
Some Cinderella kid
Get it up and get you a job
(Dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip)
[Chorus]
I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be? (I'm alright)
I'm alright
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don't ya just let me be?
[Verse 2]
Who do you want?
Who you gonna be tonight?
Who is it really
Making up your mind?
You wanna listen to the man
Pay attention to the magistrate
And while I gotcha in the mood
Listen to your own heart beatin'
Own heart beatin'
Own heart beatin', own heart
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't it get ya movin' m-m-m-m-man
It makes me feel good
Some Cinderella kid
Well, get it up and get you a job
(Dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip)
I'm (boom boom boom)
[Chorus]
I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be?
(Be the ball, be the ball)
I'm alright
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don't ya just let me be?
I'm alright (I'm alright)
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be? (Oh-oohhh)
[Outro]
I'm alright
I'm alright
I'm alright
Just let me be
I'm alright
I'm alright
I'm alright
Just let me be
Everybody let me be