Artist: Desmond Dekker
Song: You can get it if you really want
Tabbed by: DJ
1st July 2013

Tuning: Standard

CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in key of Db)

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 B    C        B     C        B     C        B     C
   |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |


                        F          C                          F
You can get it if you really want,    you can get it if you really want,
C                          F                        C            G            F
   You can get it if you really want, 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!


C             G    F             C           G                F
   Perse - cution you must bear,     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...


C                           F         C                          F
   You can get it if you really want,    you can get it if you really want,
C                          F                        C            G            F
   You can get it if you really want, 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?


          C       G         F              C         G            F
Yes, and...  Rome was not built in a day,    oppo - sition will come your way,
Em                         F               G                       G7
    But the harder.. the battle, you see,     is the sweeter the victory, now...


C                           F         C                          F
   You can get it if you really want,    you can get it if you really want,
C                          F                        C            G            F
   You can get it if you really want, but you must try, try and try, try and try,

G                     C          Eb           F            G  F     Eb    Db
   You'll succeed at last---!
                  | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /__/  /__/  /  / |
                                                           ^  ^    ^      ^
  C            Eb            F           G  F     Eb    Db
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /__/  /__/  /  / |
                                         ^  ^    ^      ^

      C                         F          C                          F
Yeah,   you can get it if you really want,   you can get it if you really want,
C                          F                        C            G            F
   You can get it if you really want, 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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Chord shapes are relative to capo position:

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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