[Verse]

              
When you're do

          
wn and trouble

            
d and you need

   
 a helping han

d,
            
and nothing, o

            
h, nothing is 

             
going right,
            
close your eye

            
s and think of

            
 me and soon I

          
 will be there
            
to brighten up

            
 even your dar

           
kest night.


[Chorus]

             
You just call 

              
out my name,  

           
and you know w

herever I am,
             
I'll come runn

              
ing to see you

     
 again.
                                                     
             
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,  all you got to do is call
             
and I'll be th

          
ere,     yeah,

    
 yeah, yeah.  
           
You've got a f

riend.


[Verse]

           
If the sky abo

            
ve you should 

             
turn dark and 

 
full of clouds

,
            
and that old n

            
orth wind shou

              
ld begin to bl

        
ow,
            
keep your head

          
 together and 

              
call my name o

   
ut loud.
            
Soon I'll be k

            
nocking upon y

           
our door.  


[Chorus]

             
You just call 

              
out my name,  

           
and you know w

herever I am,
             
I'll come runn

              
ing to see you

     
 again.
                                                     
             
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,  all you got to do is call
             
and I'll be th

          
ere,     yeah,

    
 yeah, yeah.  
           
You've got a f

riend.


[Bridge]

*           
Hey ain't it g

              
ood to know th

       
at you've got 

a friend when 
             
people can be 

              
so cold.     T

             
hey'll hurt yo

       
u and desert y

ou.
              
Well, they'll 

           
take your soul

            
 if you let th

em.
              
Oh yeah, but d

            
on't you let t

 
hem.


[Chorus]

             
You just call 

              
out my name,  

             
and you know w

        
herever I am,
             
I'll come runn

              
ing to see you

   
 again.

                                         
              
Winter, spring

  
, summer, or f

all,  all you 

got to do is c

all
             
and I'll be th

          
ere, yes I wil

  
l.
              
You've got a f

            
riend.  You've

        
 got a friend.
             
Ain't it good 

              
to know you've

        
 got a friend?
                                         
             
Ain't it good 

              
to know you've

                  
 got a friend?
             
Oh, yeah, yeah

              
.  You've got 

    
a friend.