You Can Make It If You Try

Composer: Ted Jarrett       Original performer: Gene Allison (1958)
Recording date: January 1964        Recording location: Regent Sound Studios, London
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineer: Bill Farley
Performed onstage: 1963-64

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Brian Jones
Electric guitar: Keith Richards
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Bill Wyman
Organ: Ian Stewart
Tambourine: Brian Jones
 

You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try

Sometime you had to fall
Don't you know sometime you want to cry
Don't it make you feel so bad sometime you want to lay down and die?
Yeah, yeah - you can make it if you try

If your baby treats you wrong
Don't run around being blue
Remember my friends, everybody can't win
'Cause you know sometimes, sometimes you've got to lose

You can make it if you try
They always told me I could make it if I tried
I'm going to make it if i try, yeah, yeah
I'm going to make it if I try

If you try
 



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