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Artist: Sly And The Family Stone
Canonical path: /sly-and-the-family-stone/you-can-make-it-if-you-try
Related lyric paths: 6
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You Can Make It If You Try
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You Can Make It If You Try
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You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
Push a little harder
Think a little deeper
Don't let the plastic bring you down
(All together now)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
Time still creepin'
Specially when you're sleepin'
Wake up and go for what you know
(All together now)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
You'll get what's due you
Everything coming to you
You got to move if you want to be ahead
(All together now)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
Time still creepin'
Specially when you're sleepin'
Wake up and go for what you know
(All together now)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma make it
You can make it if you try
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa make it
You can make it if you try...
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