THE EAGLES - NEW KID IN TOWN

NEW KID IN TOWN

EAGLES

SONGWRITERS: FREY GLENN LEWIS, HENLEY DON & J. D. SOUTHER

WHERE: LIVE 1977

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: HOTEL CALIFORNIA

LABEL: ASYLUM

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1976

"New Kid in Town" is a song by the Eagles from their 1976 studio album Hotel California. It was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. Released as the first single from the album, the song became a number-one hit in the US, and number 20 in the UK. The single version has an earlier fade-out than the album version. The song features Glenn Frey singing the lead vocals, with Don Henley singing main harmony vocals. Randy Meisner plays the guitarrón mexicano, Don Felder plays electric guitars, and Joe Walsh plays the electric piano and organ parts. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices. 

There's talk on the street

It sounds so familiar

Great expectations, everybody's watching you

People you meet

They all seem to know you

Even your old friends treat you like you're something new

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town

Everybody loves you, so don't let them down

You look in her eyes

The music begins to play

Hopeless romantics, here we go again

But after awhile

You're lookin' the other way

It's those restless hearts that never mend

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town

Will she still love you when you're not around?

There's so many things you should have told her

But night after night you're willing to hold her

Just hold her

Tears on your shoulder

There's talk on the street

It's there to remind you

It doesn't really matter which side you're on

You're walking away

And they're talking behind you

They will never forget you 'til somebody new comes along

Where you've been lately? There's a new kid in town

Everybody loves him

Don't they?

Now he's holding her, and you're still around

Oh, my, my

There's a new kid in town

Just another new kid in town

Everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town

Everybody's walking like the new kid in town

There's a new kid in town

I don't wanna hear it

There's a new kid in town

I don't wanna hear it

There's a new kid in town

There's a new kid in town

There's a new kid in town

(Everybody's talking)

There's a new kid in town

(People started walking)

There's a new kid in town

There's a new kid in town.