WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE
THE ANIMALS
SIONGWRITERS: BARRY MANN & CYNTHIA WEIL
COUNTRY: ENGLAND
ALBUM: THE ANIMALS
LABEL: COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1965
The Animals(also billed as Eric Burdon and
the Animals) are an English rhythm-and-blues and rock band, formed in
Newcastle
upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon
finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their
gritty, bluesy sound and
deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon,
as exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic number-one hit single "The House of
the Rising Sun" as well as by hits such as
"We Gotta Get
Out of This Place", "It's My Life",
"Don't Bring Me Down",
"I'm Crying",
"See See Rider"
and "Don't Let Me
Be Misunderstood." The band balanced tough,
rock-edged pop singles against rhythm-and-blues-oriented album material and
were part of the British Invasion of
the US.
The
Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s, and suffered
from poor business management, leading the original incarnation to split up in
1966. Burdon assembled a mostly new lineup of musicians
under the name Eric Burdon and the Animals; the much-changed act moved to
California and achieved commercial success as a psychedelic and hard rock band
with hits such as "San
Franciscan Nights", "When I Was
Young" and "Sky Pilot"
before disbanding at the end of the decade. Altogether, the group had 10 top-20
hits in both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.
The original lineup of Burdon, Alan Price, Chas Chandler, Hilton Valentine and John Steel reunited for a one-off benefit concert in Newcastle in 1968. They later launched brief
comebacks in 1975 and 1983. Several partial regroupings of the original-era
members have occurred since then under various names. The
Animals were inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1994.
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place",
occasionally written "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place", is a rock
song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and
recorded as a 1965 hit single by the Animals.
It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular with United States
Armed Forces G.I.s during the Vietnam War.
In 2004 it was ranked number 233 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list; it is also in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that
Shaped Rock and Roll list.
In this dirty old
part of the city
Where the sun refused 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
Watch my daddy in bed
a-dyin'
Watched his hair been turnin' grey
He's been workin' and slavin' his life away, oh yes I know it
And I've been workin'
too, baby (yeah!)
Every night and day (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
We gotta get out of
this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and you
Now my girl you're so
young and pretty
And one thing I know is true, yeah
You'll be dead before your time is due, I know it
Watch my daddy in bed
a-dyin'
Watched his hair been turnin' grey, yeah
He's been workin' and slavin' his life away
I know he's been workin' so hard
Every day baby
(yeah!)
Whoa!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah!)
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
Somehow I know it, baby
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
Believe me baby
I know it baby
You know it too.
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