You Can Get It If You Really Want

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From: Harlan L Thompson 

YOU CAN GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT- Jimmy Cliff

(slide up to)C (slide up to) C
CHORUS:
     C         (G)       F        (G) C
You can get it if you really want
     C         (G)       F        (G) C
You can get it if you really want
     C         (G)       F
You can get it if you really want
    (G)       C            G            F
But you must try, try and try, try and try
G G (n.c.)               C
    You’ll succeed at last

       mm hm
C (G) F (G) C (G) F (G) C

  C  G       F            (G)
Persecution you must bear
 C      G                F
Win or lose, you got to get your share
 Em               F
Got your mind set on a dream
 G                      G7
You can get it though hard it may seem, now ...CHORUS

          I know it       listen
C (G) F (G)   C     (G) F (G) C

Rome was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the harder the battle you see
It’s the sweeter the victory, now ...CHORUS

C  Eb  F   G F Eb Db C  Eb  F   G F Eb Db C (all barred)

CHORUS


(from The Harder They Come soundtrack, 1972)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)