You Can Get It If You Really Want

"You Can Get It If You Really Want"
UK 7" vinyl single cover
Single by Desmond Dekker
from the album You Can Get It If You Really Want
B-side"Perseverance"
Released
  • 21 July 1970
GenreReggae
Length2:44
LabelTrojan
SongwriterJimmy Cliff
Producers
Desmond Dekker singles chronology
"Pickney Gal"
(1969) 		"You Can Get It If You Really Want"
(1970) 		"The Song We Used to Sing"
(1970)

"You Can Get It If You Really Want" is a reggae song written and originally recorded by Jamaican singer songwriter Jimmy Cliff and released as a single in July 1970. Another version, recorded by Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker and released within a few weeks of Cliff's version, became a hit single in a number of markets, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

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