Album: Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971)

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• When you're down and troubled
  And you need a helping hand
  And nothing, nothing is going right
  Close your eyes and think of me
  And soon I will be there
  To brighten up even your darkest night
  
  You just call out my name
  And you know wherever I am
  I'll come running, oh yeah baby, to see you again
  Winter, spring, summer or fall
  All you've got to do is call
  And I'll be there, ye, ye, ye
  You've got a friend
  
  If the sky above you
  Should turn dark and full of clouds
  And that old north wind should begin to blow
  Keep you head together
  And call my name out loud now
  Soon you'll hear me knocking at you door
  
  You just call out my name
  And you know wherever I am
  I'll come running, oh yes I will, to see you again
  Winter, spring, summer or fall, ye
  All you have to do is call
  And I'll be there, ye, ye, yeah
  
  Ain't it good to know that you've got a friend
  When people can be so cold
  They'll hurt you, and desert you
  And take your soul if you let them, oh yeah, don't you let 'em now
  
  You just call out my name
  And you know wherever I am
  I'll come running to see you again, oh baby, don't you know
  Winter, spring, summer or fall
  Hey now, all you have to do is call
  And I'll be there, yes I will
  You've got a friend
  You've got a friend, yeah
  
  Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
  Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
  
  Oh, ye yeah, you've got a friend Writer/s: Carole King
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 7

• Carlos Pessoa from Bertioga, BrasilI really like this song, specially this version. Wish I could have a friend to call or even to be called when someone needed me. Sometimes I think, the more it gets old more hard is to find a new friend. The few I had, all are living far away from me. And I have only 25yo!
• Naomi from EnglandWhat movie had "you've got a friend" in it? All I remember is the characters where a boy derek and a girl robyn in it.
• Craig Barbian from WisconsinI'm a huge James Taylor fan and Carole King is certainly one of our greatest singer/songwriters.
• Jennifur Sun from RamonaAlways thought James had wrote this. Love the lyrics and the friends this reminds me of.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 5th 1971, James Taylor injured his hand on a piece machinery at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; as a result his wound needed 12 stitches, thus his upcoming concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Hollywood Bowl were canceled...
  The day before on September 4th his covered version "You're Got a Friend" was at #22 on Billboard's Hot Top 100, and that was also its last day on the chart...
  Between 1970 and 1978 he had twenty-one Top 100 records; five made the Top 10, with the above song reaching #1, it peaked at the top spot for one week on July 25th, 1971...
  On the day Mr. Taylor's version peak at #1, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's duet version was at #31 on the Top 100.
• David from Plattsmouth, NeJames Taylor repeatedly calls this "the best song ever written" and credits Carole King's kindness in giving it to him to record as the reason for his initial popularity (as told at the Seattle Troubadours Tour in 2010).
• Rick from Calgary, CanadaI think Annabelle is a little off in ascribing this as "Record of The Year" for 1971. It won the other two awards she noted but Carole King actually won "Record of The Year" honors for "It's Too Late"

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