Song: You can get it if you really want
Artist: Desmond Dekker
Composer: Jimmy Cliff
Tabbed by: DJ
1st July 2013
CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in key of Db)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
B = x24442 Em = x22000
C = x35553 or x32010 G7 = 353433
F = 133211 Eb = xx5343 or x68886
G = 355433 Db = xx3121 or x46664
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[Intro]
B C B C B C B C
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[Chorus]
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C G F
But you must try, try and try, try and try,
G C F C F
You'll succeed at last---! Humm - umm, umm, umm! Yeah!
[Verse 1]
C G F
Perse - cution you must bear,
C G F
Win or lose, you got to get your share,
Em F G
You got your mind... set on a dream, you can get it,
G7
Though hard it may seem, now...
[Chorus]
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C G F
But you must try, try and try, try and try,
G C F C F
You'll succeed at last---! Don't you know it?
[Verse 2]
C G F
Yes, and... Rome was not built in a day,
C G F
Oppo - sition will come your way,
Em F
But the harder ..the battle, you see,
G G7
Is the sweeter the victory, now...
[Chorus]
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C G F
But you must try, try and try, try and try,
G
You'll succeed at...
[Bridge]
...last-----!
C Eb F G F Eb Db
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^ ^ ^ ^
C Eb F G F Eb Db
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^ ^ ^ ^
[Chorus]
C F
Yeah, you can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C F
You can get it if you really want,
C G F
But you must try, try and try, try and try,
G C F
You'll succeed at last------!
[Suggestion for coda, slow down on last two bars]
C Eb F G F Eb Db C
Don't you know? | / / / / | / / / / | /__/ /__/ / / | / ||
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