Where Were You When I Needed You - Grass Roots, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Where Were You When I Needed You (Grass Roots, The, 1966). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-01-24. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Where Were You When I Needed You" was the Grass Roots' first top 40 hit rising to #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966 (Whitburn, 2013). The song was written by the songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri (R. Unterberger, allmusic.com, 2022). The two decided to record some demo recordings of their music and eventually decided to be artists as well and called them selves the Grass Roots (as in the grass roots project) and recruited the San Francisco band the Bedouin to complete the band; their lead singer, Bill Fulton, sang lead for the song; be that as it may, the members of the Bedouin did not work out, so Sloan & Barri completed the rest of the songs for the first album themselves (songfacts.com, 2022).

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Lyrics:

Don't bother crying, don't bother calling
It's all over now, no use in stalling
The love once I felt
I don't feel anymore for you
This time I'll even open the door for you
You walked out when I was down
Well, now I'm well off
And look, look who's coming 'round

Where were you when I needed ya
Where were you when I wanted ya
Where were you when I needed ya
Where?

You're looking good
It's hard to fight it
There's no use explaining
I've already decided
That living with you
Is worse than without you
I won't spend a lifetime a-worriying about you
Things get rough and you disappeared
Now I'm back on my feet
And look, look who is standing there

Where were you when I needed ya
Where were you when I wanted ya
Where were you when I needed ya
Where?

You were so young and you were so wild
I knew you were nobody's innocent child
The first day I saw you
You really got to me
I thought I could change you
What good did it to me?
Things got rough and you couldn't wait
Now you're tripping back
But babe, babe it's too late

Where were you when I needed ya
Where were you when I wanted ya
Where were you when I needed ya
Where?