Same Time Next Year
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- Album This song officially appears on the Put It There CD Single.
Song facts
Same Time Next Year – Taped on May 5, 1978, in the London RAK studio, during the first session of the new Wings’ line-up and finished during the last sessions with those same people, in January 1981. It was recorded as the title track for a movie but rejected, because too much of the plot was given away in the lyrics. A commercial version was issued in February 1990 as the b-side of the ‘Put It There’ single.
Proposed theme-song for the Alan Alda film of the same name
Overdubbed with a 68-piece orchestra at Abbey Road
Last updated on August 20, 2019
Lyrics
Must we wait another year
For the celebration, dear?
If we do, we'll hold it here,
Same time next year.
I'll be here, the same as ever,
Maybe wearing something else.
Ah, but nothing changes,
Ah, but nothing changes.
Still to me you look the same
As when I forgot your name,
Lovers in a lovers' game,
Same time next year.
I'll be here, the same as ever,
No, I never go away.
Ah, but nothing changes, (ah, but nothing changes)
Ah, but nothing changes.
Same time next year.
Must we wait another year
For the celebration, dear?
If we do, we'll hold it here,
Same time next year.
Same time next year,
Same time next year,
Same time next year,
Same time next year.
Same time next year
Officially appears on
Flowers In The Dirt - Special Package
Official album • Released in 1990
3:06 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Arrangement, Backing vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Bass
- Laurence Juber :
- Electric guitar
- Steve Holley :
- Drums, Tambourine
- Chris Thomas :
- Producer
- Fiachra Trench :
- Arrangement
- John Leach :
- Cimbalom
- Session Recording:
- May 05, 1978
- Studio :
- RAK Studios, London
- Session Overdubs:
- May 06, 1978
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London
- Session Mixing:
- August 1987
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, or Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
CD Single • Released in 1990
3:07 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Arrangement, Backing vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Bass
- Laurence Juber :
- Electric guitar
- Steve Holley :
- Drums, Tambourine
- Chris Thomas :
- Producer
- Fiachra Trench :
- Arrangement
- John Leach :
- Cimbalom
- Session Recording:
- May 05, 1978
- Studio :
- RAK Studios, London
- Session Overdubs:
- May 06, 1978
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London
- Session Mixing:
- August 1987
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, or Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Bootlegs
Latest concerts where Same Time Next Year has been played
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.