girl you're so young and pretty
"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 among United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War . In The Animals' rendition, the lyrics were slightly reordered and reworded from the demo, and opened with what seemed to be a reference to their industrial , working class Northern England origins: In this dirty old heart of the city Where the sun refused to shine People tell me, there ain't no use in tryin' Next comes a verse about the singer's father at the end of his life with little to show for it, followed by one of The Animals' call-and-response buildups, finally leading through delayed tension to the well-known chorus: We gotta get out of this place! If it's the last thing we ever do ... We gotta get out of thi...