THREE DOG NIGHT- "OUT IN THE COUNTRY"

PEAKED AT # 15 IN 1970. LYRICS:
Whenever I need to leave it all behind
Or feel the need to get away
I find a quiet place, far from the human race
Out in the country

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Whenever I feel them closing in on me
Or need a bit of room to move
When life becomes too fast, I find relief at last
Out in the country

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime...

I stand alone...

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[svo65]

always been a favorite. wow! just as good now as when i first heard it. how time has flown. thanks for putting it on.

[rwells47]

@svo65- you're very welcome!

[catcando75]

Thank you for a fabulous video! This was my favorite TDN song. I think the 70's had the best music of any decade. TDN, Zeppelin, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Grand Funk Railroad, Yes, The Eagles, Marvin Gaye, Boz Skaggs, Derek & The Dominoes, CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG, Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, Creedence, Bill Withers, Janis Joplin, Elton John, The Doobies, The Cars, Steely Dan, Blue Oyster Cult & the list goes on & on. Thumbs up if u agree.

[rwells47]

@catcando75 - you are very welcome!

[Jeffredo729]

Wow. Major nostalgia rush. I can picture myself ten years old in my childhood hometown of Oakdale, California pedaling my bike around our street with my friends. Dad and older brother have passed, but not in this memory. We're all there in a beautiful dream (and the tears are streaming down my face). Those of us around in 1970 don't realize how lucky we were. Awesome time. Thank you for posting this.

[rwells47]

@Jeffredo729 - you are very welcome!

[Redhand1949]

Thanks for posting this. Boy does it bring back memories of 1970 when I was in college. The music is wonderfully melodic and the lyrics beautiful, but with an undercurrent of reflective melancholy. Still has that power 42 years later. Remarkable that it has the ability to move me at 62 almost the same way it did when I was 20.

[oldplatterman]

Whenever I need to leave it all behind

Or feel the need to get away

I find a quiet place, far from the human race

Out in the country

[geegon50]

@AnthonyT50 Hey Anthony, I had just graduated from Central High in KC 1970 and yes WHB was a really cool station. I wished I had the money to see TDN too. This is off the record but I looked in the KC star Arcives, 1969 I believe and saw where Jimi Hendrix was appearing at the Municipal auditorium for only 5 dollars a ticket. How about that. Anyway, I wish I could have seen TDN with all the original members back then. Thanks for the message.

[catcando75]

@catcando75 They are not in the R & R H of F !!! You can't email them, they only accept letters. So get you keyboards or pens going & write why you think TDN should be on their walls!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation

1290 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10104

[esl190]

Just lost two friends in a plane crash. This song fits my melancholy (sic?) mood.

[centralparocker]

Moving and poignant....hands down, one of their best....!!!!

[schepler2]

Amazing song. Hard to believe how many great tunes that Paul Williams wrote. But Three Dog Night really made these songs come alive. Funny, this isn't one I remember hearing as a kid (I was born in '68), but I really like it now. One of my top 5 favorite TDN tunes (along with "One," "Shambala," "Old Fashioned Love Song," and maybe "Black and White").