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Eric Clapton

Help the Poor

Release date: 13th June 2000

From Riding with the King
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"Help the Poor" is a track by Eric Clapton, from the album Riding with the King, released 13th June 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Lyrics

Help the Poor

Help the poor

Won't you help poor me?

I need help from you, baby

Need it desperately

I need you so much, I need your care

Need all the loving, baby, you can spare

Help the poor

Oh baby, won't you help poor me?

Say you will

Say you'll help me on

I can't make it no longer

In this world alone

Baby, I'm begging with tears in my eyes

For your love, don't you realize

I need help

Oh baby, help poor me

You are my inspiration

Baby, that make me be a king

But if you don't come to my rescue

I couldn't ever be anything

Hey, help the poor

Won't you help poor me?

Have a heart, won't you baby?

Listen to my plea

Oh, I lost my courage till I found you

You've got what it takes, baby, to pull me through

Help the poor

Oh baby, won't you help poor me?

You are my inspiration

Baby, you make me be a king

But if you don't come to my rescue

I couldn't ever be anything

Help the poor

Won't you help poor me?

Have a heart, won't you baby?

Listen to my plea

Oh, I lost my courage till I found you

If that's what it takes, baby, to pull me through

Help the poor

Oh baby, help poor me

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Track details

From Riding with the King

2000
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Album
Riding with the King
Riding with the King
Eric Clapton
Release year
2000
  1. —When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
  2. —Help the Poor
  3. —Ten Long Years
  4. —Three O'Clock Blues
  5. —Days of Old
  6. —Hold On I'm Coming
  7. —Come Rain or Come Shine
  8. —I Wanna Be
  9. —Marry You
  10. —Riding with the King
  11. —Ten Long Years
    4:40

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Charles Singleton
Producer
Eric Clapton, Simon Climie
Engineer
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Bass
Nathan East
Drums
Steve Gadd
Guitar
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Hammond Organ
Tim Carmon
Mixing Engineer
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Rhodes Piano
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