The Jackson 5 – Get It Together

Title track of an album the Jackson 5 released in September 1973 in the US and November 1973 in the UK.

It sold a respectable 700,000 copies as a single in the US, achieving no.2 on the R&B singles chart but a lowly no.28 on the Hot 100 – better than the UK, where it failed to chart at all.

Also issued as a promo 7" red vinyl single in the US.

An alternate version featured on the Jackson 5’s 1986 compilation, Anthology.

Performed by the Jackson 5 in the US on The Bob Hope Special, Soul Train and The Mills Brothers Special in 1974, and by the Jacksons on their TV series in 1977.

Get It Together – Lyrics

You better get it together
Or leave it alone
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone

Get up, get up, get up
Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doing, doin’
Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doin’, doin’

I’m spinnin’ around on your merry-go-round
You got me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy

Get it together
Or leave it alone
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone

Now, now, babe

Get it together
Or leave it alone
You better, get it, get it
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone

Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doin’, doin’
Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doin’, doin’

I can’t stand all this confusion
All this shuckin’ and jivin’
You’re putting down, down, down

Get it together
Or leave it alone
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone

Big girl what you’re doing
Throwin’ this heart of mine all away
Oh, big girl you know I love you
To keep a love like mine is hard this day
All ya gotta do, girl