Lyr Req: This World Today Is a Mess (D Hightower)

Subject: Looking for a song containing this text
From:
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:10 AM

Hello !

I'm looking for the author's name and title of a lyric that contains these words :

"try to find another way to make it true" "before they do it to you" "everybody's talking ... (?) blabla" "what you do and what you say" "what you want and what you make" "what you see and what you give"

I couldn't write down more of it. Does some one know this song ? I really would like to buy it.

Thank you for your help !

Laurent

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a song containing this t
From: Gary T
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:26 AM

Sorry, Laurent, I

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a song containing this t
From: Gary T
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:30 AM

Ah, sh*t, I hit "submit" instead of "clear", thinking I should give some time for those who might know the answer to respond.

What I was going to say was, sorry, I don't know it, but one suggestion is to go to www.google.com and type in one of the phrases. Google is a fairly impressive search engine that's helped me find a number of things.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a song containing this t
From: Gary T
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:32 AM

Well, that link didn't work. Let's try again. Click here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a song containing this t
From: Gary T
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:33 AM

I give up. Sorry. You'll have to type it in unless someone else can make a proper link.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a song containing this t
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 03:21 PM

GOOGLE?

Subject: Lyr Add: THIS WORLD TODAY IS A MESS
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 08:26 AM

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]