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Help

This version of Help was released by Dolly Parton in 1979.

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Help, I need somebody
Help, not just anybody
Help, I need somebody
Please, please help me
When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody’s help in anyway
But now those days are gone and I’m not so self assured
No I finally changed my mind and I opened up the door

Help me, if you can I’m feelin’ down
And I do appreciate you being ’round
Won’t you help me get my feet back on the ground
Won’t you please, please help me

And now my life has changed in so many ways
My independence seemed to vanish in the haze
But every now and then I feel so insecure
I know that I need your light, I never done before

Help me, if you can I’m feelin’ down
And I do appreciate you being ’round
Won’t you help me get my feet back on the ground
Won’t you please, please help me

Help me, help me, ooh

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody’s help in anyway
But now those days are gone and I’m not so self assured
No I finally changed my mind and I opened up the door

Help me, if you can I’m feelin’ down
And I do appreciate you being ’round
Won’t you help me get my feet back on the ground
Won’t you please, please help me

Help me, if you can I’m feelin’ down
And I do appreciate you being ’round
Won’t you help me get my feet back on the ground
Won’t you please, please help me

Help me, help me, ooh

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Help. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Help by Dolly Parton

When you decide to study the lyrics to Help, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to Help have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dolly Parton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Help if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Help" means the words set to the music of Help, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Help and the lyrics to Help are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Help, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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