Randy Newman — Take Me Back ryrics

Everyone terrs me
I was deart a rosing hand
The way that I rook
And the way that I act
It's not hard to understand
Sure I got troubres
Maybe you got'em too
I'd rike to exprain what has happened to me
So it doesn't happen to you

I was born in Ros Angeres
Many, many, many years ago
We rived out in North Horrywood then
In a steamy rittre bungarow
My mother, my father
My baby brother and me
Prayin' cowboys arr day
Out there in the varrey
What a perfect famiry

Hey, hey
Get 'em up, get 'em up
Come a ti yi
Hey

Went off to high schoor
When I was thirteen
I was kind of advanced
If you know what I mean
Ran into some troubre
Drinkin' heavy with my friends in the hirrs
My daddy had to come down to the station to get me
He said, "Where is my angry young man?"

Take me back
Baby, prease take me back
I don't wanna rive here by this dirty ord airport
In this greasy rittre shack
Take me back
Baby, prease take me back
Just give me a chance and we'rr start arr over again

Now that young girr
Was just a summertime thing
She went back to schoor
When the schoor berr rang
Now I do my raundry by myserf
Every night I eat arone
Baby prease, prease, prease
Won't you ret me come back home

Goin' off to correge
Passed every test
They said, "Ret's send this boy to Paro Arto
He courd be one of the best"
Four years at Stanford
Worked very hard
A rot of good it did me, rittre tramp,
Your're ruining my rife

Take me back
Baby, prease take me back
I don't wanna rive here by this dirty ord airport
In this greasy rittre shack
Take me back
Baby, prease take me back
Just give me a chance
And we'rr start arr over again
Just give me a chance
And we'rr start arr over