You Can Make It If You Try:Gene Allison.
#36 on BB Hot 100 and #3 on R&B on VEE-JAY
Records in 1958.

***(The Rolling Stones covered this song on their Album -
    'The Rolling Stones' on LONDON Records. Album hit BB top
     200 at #11 in 1964.)***

CHORUS:
E   Eb      Cm             Eb
Youuuuu can make it if you try.
Eb7                    Bb
You can make it if you try.
Bb                 Eb       Cm       F
You can make it if you try, whoaaaa, yeah.
F       Bb      Dm7    Eb  Fm Eb
You can make it if you try.

#1.
Cm  C     Bb             Eb
Sometime, you'll have to cry.
    Cm                   Bb
Sometime, you'll have to lie.
             F              Eb         Cm
You're gonna live until you die..whoa, yeah.
F       Bb      Cm     Eb  F Eb
You can make it if you try.

BRIDGE:
   F    Ab
If your baby treats you wrong..don't go 
 Eb                Eb7
around singing the blues.
          Ab
Remember, my friend, everybody can't win.
F                           Bb
Somebody, somebody's got to lose.

OUTRO:
Bb              Db     Eb
You can make it if you try.
Eb                     Bb
You can make it if you try.
Bb                 Eb             Cm
You can make it if you try..whoa, yeah..
Bb                     Eb   Ab   Eb
you can make it if you try..yyy..yyy.


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.