"Inside-Looking Out", often written "Inside Looking Out",[2] is a 1966 single by the Animals, and their first for Decca Records.
[3] It was the group's final single with drummer John Steel, who left shortly after its release.
The song is very loosely based on a prison work chant entitled "Rosie," attributed to C. B. and Axe Gang, that was collected by musicologist Alan Lomax and released in his album Popular Songbook.
[4][5] As a result, the Animals' interpretation is credited to John and Alan Lomax with Eric Burdon and Chas Chandler.
Cash Box described the single as a "raunchy, pulsating blues-soaked plea in which a rejected fella begs his ex-girlfriend to return to him.