This article seeks to do a “cutting” of the work-leisure imaginary in our culture. In the world of work, locus of deep transformations in the last decades, work and leisure converge and are opposed, showing rich displacement aspects, in the psychoanalytic sense of the term. We applied the methodology of discursive analysis for thematic redundancy, to the song “Good Time”, by Chico Buarque de Hollanda, detailing its relationships with the symbolic-imaginary dimension. We observed that in this poetry, just as in the remainder of the author’s work, the categories time, place and repetition are found. The theoretical reference that gives support to the research includes, among others, Maffesoli, Durand, Castoriadis, Barbier, Vernant, Freud and Lacan. They were evident the wealth contained in the myth-poetic imaginary of the popular music and the importance of the approach of the leisure from that point of view and the interpretations of the tensional dynamics contained in the pair work-leisure and the worker’s physical manipulation, of his time, of his body. From his point of view, the poet, when exalting leisure, when accusing the search of the “Good Time”, allows the construction and the manipulation of the symbolic-imaginary dimension. Let us keep, firmly, the space for the hope, let us imagine that there “comes a good time”. ; Este artículo busca realizar un “recorte” del imaginario trabajo-diversión en nuestra cultura. En el mundo del trabajo, locus de profundas transformaciones en las últimas décadas, trabajo y diversión confluyem y se oponen, mostrando ricos aspectos de desplazamiento, en el sentido psicoanalítico del término. Aplicamos la metodología del análisis discursivo categorial por redundancia temática a la canción “Bom Tempo” (Buen Tiempo), de Chico Buarque de Hollanda, detallando sus relaciones con la dimensión simbólico-imaginaria. Observamos que en esta poesía, como en el resto de la obra del autor, las categorías tempo, lugar y repetitividad son encontradas. El referencial teórico que da soporte ...