now s the time for all good men to get together with one another we got to iron out our problems and iron out our quarrels and try to live as brothers and try to find a piece of land without stepping on one another and do respect the women of the world remember you all have mothers we got to make this land a better land than the world in which we live and we got to help each man be a better man with the kindness that we give i know we can make it i know darn well we can work it out oh yes we can i know we can can yes we can can why can t we if we wanna get together we can work it out and we gotta take care of all the children the little children of the world cause they re our strongest hope for the future the little bitty boys and girls we got to make this land a better land than the world in which we live and we got to help each man be a better man with the kindness that we give i know we can make it i know darn well we can work it out oh yes we can i know we can can yes we can can why can t we if we wanna yes we can can