We Gotta Get Out Of This Place:The Animals.
#2 in UK and Canada and #13 in USA in 1965.
#1.
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In this dirty old part of the city, where the sun refuses to shine,
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people tell me there ain't no use in tryin'.
#2.
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Now my girl you're so young and pretty, and one thing I know is true,
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you'll be dead before your time is due, I know it.
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Watch my daddy in bed a-dying, watch his hair as it's turning grey,
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he's been working and slavin' his life away, oh yes, I know it.
#3.
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Yea......h..I've been workin' too, my girl.
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Yea......h..Every night and day..yeah..
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Slavin' my life away..yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
CHORUS:
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We gotta get out of this place..if it's the last thing we ever do.
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We gotta get out of this place..
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Girl, there's a better life, for me and you.
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#4.
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Now my girl you're so young and pretty, and one thing I know is true,
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you'll be dead before your time is due, I know it.
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Watch my daddy in bed a-dying, watch his hair as it's turning grey,
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he's been working and slavin' his life..every night and day,
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oh, yes, I know it, baby....yeaaaaah..
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I been workin' too hard..yeah, but I got to do it..whoooaaa.
(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
CHORUS:
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We gotta get out of this place..if it's the last thing we ever do.
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We gotta get out of this place..
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Bb C..F Eb Bb C.
Girl, there's a better life, for me and you.
(Beleive me baby..I know it, baby..somewhere inside.)
CHORUS:
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We gotta get out of this place..if it's the last thing we ever do.
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We gotta get out of this place..
Dm F F Eb
Bb C..F Eb Bb C.
Girl, there's a better life, for me and you.
(Beleive me baby..I know it, baby..you know it, too.)(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
