"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" (Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil) [3:12]

Recorded at Kingsway Studios, 1965.

released as Columbia DB 7639 on 8 July 1965; charts 15 July 1965; UK #2.

Animals: Eric Burdon (vocals), Alan Price (organ), Chas Chandler (bass), Hilton Valentine (guitar), and John Steel (drums). Possible overdubbing by session musicians.

Produced by Mickie Most.

The Animals. 1987. The Best of the Animals [9]. New York: Abkco 43242.

Notes and Quotes

	Section	Time	Meas.	Description	Text
	Intro	0:00	4	bass solo (add cymbal)	—
A	verse	0:	8	voice, bass, & cymbal	a
A	verse	:	8	voice, guitar, bass, & cymbal	b
A	verse	:	8	voice, organ, guitar, bass, & cymbal	c
A'	bridge	:	8	build intensity	d
B	chorus	:	12 (8 + 4)	tutti	e
A	verse	:	8	diminish intensity	b
A	verse	:	8		c
A'	bridge	:	8	build intensity	d
B	chorus	:	12 (8 + 4)	tutti	e
	coda		14 (8 + 6)	diminish intensity

Text
In this dirty old part of the city, where the sun refused to shine, people tell me there ain't no use in tryin'.	a
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.	b
Watch my daddy in bed and dyin'; watch his hair been turnin' grey; he's been workin' and slavin' his life away.	c
He's been workin' so hard; well I've been workin' too baby, every night and day . . . .	d
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.	e

The Animals	Schedule	British Blues
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