What's this folksy 1960s pop tune?

January 8, 2009 11:23 PM

Anyone know this song? Sorry, I only have that excerpt.) Sounds like a 1960s folk-pop tune. In case you don't feel like downloading it, the lyrics are along these lines: I gotta get the world off my back / Pretty soon I'm gonna crack / so I gotta get the world offa my back somehow ... I grew up and looked around me and I saw that the world was in a mess / thousands of hungry people, children starving in wars, injustice, and everybody kept picking on me ... I had no luck searching with the lyrics online. Thanks for any help you can provide!
posted by ktoad to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

Best answer: 'Gotta get the World Off My Back' ---- Bill Martin / Phil Coulter
Listen to CD here.
posted by Gerard Sorme at 11:58 PM on January 8, 2009

BTW, could be a studio musician singing the Martin/Coulter song. It's odd there are no vocal attributions.
posted by Gerard Sorme at 12:02 AM on January 9, 2009

Response by poster: Thank you very much!
posted by ktoad at 7:39 AM on January 9, 2009