Welcome Back

Album: Welcome Back (1976)
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  • Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out
    Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about
    Well the names have all changed since you hung around
    But those dreams have remained and they've turned around
    Who'd have thought they'd lead ya
    (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
    Back here where we need ya
    (Back here where we need ya)
    Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

    We always could spot a friend, welcome back
    And I smile when I think how you must have been
    And I know what a scene you were learning in
    Was there something that made you come back again
    And what could ever lead ya
    (What could ever lead ya)
    Back here where we need ya
    (Back here where we need ya)
    Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
    Welcome back, welcome back

    And I know what a scene you were learning in
    Was there something that made you come back again
    And what could ever lead ya
    (What could ever lead ya)
    Back here where we need ya
    (Back here where we need ya)
    Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
    Welcome back, welcome back

    Yeah we tease him a lot, welcome back, welcome back
    Cause we got him on the spot, welcome back, welcome back

    Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back Writer/s: JOHN BENSON SEBASTIAN
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Allen from Acton, MaThis is just my opinion, but I think this is without a doubt, the worst song ever written.
  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenKotter: "Does anyone here know the name of a John Sebastian hit song from 1976?"
    Horshack (raising hand): "OHHH! OHH-OHH-OHHHH!"
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 9th 1975, the television sitcom 'Welcome Back, Kotter' debut on the ABC-TV network; the series ran for four years with a total of 95 episodes...
    Eight months later on May 2nd, 1976 the show's theme song, "Welcome Back", would peak at #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
    The song prevented "Right Back Where We Started From" by Maxine Nightingale from reaching #1; it peaked at #2...
    {See the next post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 12th 1976, John Sebastian performed "Welcome Back" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Three months earlier on March 21st, 1976 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #84; and on May 2nd it peaked at #1 (for 1 week) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 7 of those 14 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    He had two other records make the Top 100; "She's A Lady" (peaked at #84) and "Hideaway" (reached #95 in 1976)...
    Mr. Sebastian celebrated his 70th birthday three months ago on March 17th, 2014.
  • Willie from Scottsdale, AzRequiescat In pace, Epstein.
  • Garrett from Nashville, TnSebastion was a studio-quality harmonica player, and plays the solo on the record himself.
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