We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: The Animals.
#2 in UK and Canada and #13 in USA in 1965.
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Intro Verse 1 Bass only
Bass only
In this dirty old part of the city, where the sun refuses to shine,
people tell me there ain t no use in tryin .
Now my girl you re so young and pretty,
And one thing I know is true,
You ll be dead before your time is due, I know it.
Watch my daddy in bed a-dying,
Watch his hair bin turning grey, Yeah
He s been working and slavin his life away, oh yes, I know it
Yeahâ¦.. Heâs been working so hard
Yeahâ¦. I ve been workin too, baby.
Yeahâ¦. Every night and day yeah yeah yeah yeah
CHORUS
We gotta get out of this place..
If it s the last thing we ever do.
We gotta get out of this place..
Girl, there s a better life, for me and you.
Bass only
Now my girl you re so young and pretty,
And one thing I know is true,
You ll be dead before your time is due, I know it.
Watch my daddy in bed a-dying,
Watch his hair bin a turning grey, yeah
He s been working and slavin his life a-way
I know heâs bin working so hard
Yeah.. I been workin too baby yeah
Every day baby
whoooaaa. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
CHORUS
We gotta get out of this place..
If it s the last thing we ever do.
We gotta get out of this place..
Girl, there s a better life, for me and you.
Somewhere baby
C.
Somehow I know it I know it,
CHORUS
We gotta get out of this place..
If it s the last thing we ever do.
We gotta get out of this place..
Girl, there s a better life, for me and you.
Be-lieve me baby.. I know it, baby you know it, too
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.