I found several versions of this on the Internet, for instance, at http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/670.html, and I tried to consolidate them. The variations come in when the verses are repeated.

THIS WORLD TODAY IS A MESS
Daniel Danny [Daniel Candon DeLa Campa], Donna Hightower. 1970
[There is also a Spanish version: ESTE MUNDO ES UN CONFLICTO.]

What you do and what you say,
Has a lot to do in how you live today.
What you want and what you make,
Everybody knows it's only what you take.

What you see and what you hear,
When it comes around again it's never clear.
You say yes and they say no.
Everybody's talking everywhere you go. [or "Everybody's gonna start talking and talking and blah-blah everywhere you go."]

To try to give another man a helping hand,
And he will take your kindness for a weaker stand.
Never do to others what they do to you.
Try to find another way to make it through. [Or "You better do it to them before they do it to you."]

[Recorded by Donna Hightower and by Morris Albert]