G C G
    Mary heard boys talking in voices low
        C
Said she weren't no spring chicken like she didn't already know
      G
So she called up Jack from a few years back
   C
She turned him down once in his one room shack
           G
She said "Now baby, you don't look that bad"


[Chorus]
 F                      G
 'Cause everybody needs someone sometime
F               G
 Everybody needs someone, can't you see?
F               G            Am
 Everybody needs someone sometime

G C


[Verse 2]
G
 Spivey Leaks was a drip of a man
   C
He looked like a potato shoved into jeans
G
 He recollects it wasn't that long ago
              C
That he could walk by, make the young girls scream
G
 But he thought he'd just let it all slide, let it all pass
                  C
'Cause he thought love was best on the run
         G                                 C
He said "Now baby, ooh, it don't seem that fun"


[Chorus]
F                      G
'Cause everybody needs someone sometime
F                G
 Everybody needs someone, can't you see?
F               G          Am
 Everybody needs someone sometime


[Bridge]
D
 Hey there honeybee
              G
Will you give me... sugar?
           D
And if you shake real cute
                 G
I might give you some...sugar
            Am
I was doin' alright on my own, Oh

C                          D
Now I might just take you home, sugar


[Verse 3]
G
 Sister Mary used to be a nun
    C
She thought that she'd retire and have her some fun
G
 Mr. Joe of the Philadelphia Joe's
        C
Well he worked in the post office all night
        G                                     C
He said  "Hey sweetheart, you know you look alright"


[Chorus]
        F               G
 I said everybody needs someone sometime
F                G
 Everybody needs someone, can't you see?
F                G           Am
 Everybody needs someone sometime

Two, three, four
F                      G
'Cause everybody needs someone sometime
F                G
 Everybody needs someone, can't you see?
F                G           Am
 Everybody needs someone sometime
F                G
 Everybody needs someone sometime, oh yeah
F                G
 Everybody needs someone sometime
        F               G           Am
 I said everybody needs someone sometime
F                G
Everybody needs someone sometime


           F                           C
Oh, I said everybody needs someone sometime