Chorus:
 
            B                 E
People need hope, people need loving
            F#                  B
People need trust from a fellow man
            B                   E
People need love to make a good living
            F#                  B
People need faith and a helping hand
 
I:
 
B                       E                    F#            B
Man has always wanted a woman by his side to keep him company
B                         E                       F#     B    F#7
Women always knew that it takes a man to get matrimonial harmony
B                      E                                 F#          B
Everybody knows that a man who's feeling down wants some female sympathy
           B7               E
Gotta have love to carry on living
           F#               B
Gotta have love 'till eternity
 
CHORUS:
 
            B                 E
People need hope, people need loving
            F#                  B
People need trust from a fellow man
            B                   E
People need love to make a good living
            F#                  B
People need faith and a helping hand
 
         B            E               F#                B
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         B            E               F#                B
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...
 
 
II:
 
B                   E                          F#              B
Flowers in a desert need a drop of rain like a woman needs her man
B                          E
If a man's in love and his woman wants the moon
           F#           B     F#7
Then he'll take it down if he can
B                          E
Somebody who loves you and somebody who cares
      F#                   B
Isn't that what you call a friend?
           B7               E
Gotta have love to carry on living
         F#            B
Isn't it easy to understand
 
CHORUS
 
            B                 E
People need hope, people need loving
            F#                  B
People need trust from a fellow man
            B                   E
People need love to make a good living
            F#                  B
People need faith and a helping hand
 
         B            E               F#                B
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
         B            E               F#                B
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...
 
            C#                F#
People need hope, people need loving
            Ab                  C#
People need trust from a fellow man
            C#                  F#
People need love to make a good living
            Ab                 C#
People need faith in a helping hand
 
         C#           F#              Ab                C#
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
         C#           F#              Ab                C#
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...
         C#           F#              Ab                C#
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
         C#           F#              Ab                C#
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...