Try

Come on now

If you want it to happen, baby

Hold fast and believe

You can make it happen, baby

You can be where you please

All you gotta do is try

Then try once again

Then try a few more times

Then try after then

When I was a little girl

Raised on North Philly streets

I'd hear my people say

Ghetto is all they'd be

But my mommy would hold me

Quietly give me peace

She'd look me in my eyes and she'd say to me

If you want it to happen, baby

Hold fast and believe

You can make it happen, baby

You can be where you please

All you gotta do is try

Then try once again

Then try a few more times

Then try after then

As a teenager I dreamed to see the world

But how could I do this, me, a poor black girl?

And just when my will was lost

And all hope seemed set free

I'd remember my mama's face and her tellin' me

If you want it to happen, baby

Hold fast and believe

You can make it happen, baby

You can be where you please

All you gotta do is try

Then try once again

Then try a few more times

Then try after then

Try, try, try

Try, try, try

Try, try, try

Try and try again

Try, try, try

Try, try, try

Try, try

Try and try and try

Now as a grown woman I still stumble and fall

But with a lot of faith and the same amount of effort

I can withstand it all

I done seen some things now and been a few places

I'm now enjoyin' the beautiful world and the many new faces

I say

If you want it to happen, baby

Hold fast and believe

You can make it happen, baby

You can be where you please

All you gotta do is try

Then try once again

Then try a few more times

Then try after then

If you want it to happen, baby

If you want it to happen, baby

If you want it to happen, baby

If you want it to happen, baby

If you want it to happen, baby

If you want it to happen, baby

If you want it to happen, baby