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{{Infobox Single
| Name           = We Can Work It Out
| Cover          = day-tripper.jpg
| Artist         = The Beatles
| A-side         = "[[Day Tripper]]"
| Released       = 3 December 1965 (UK) <br/>6 December 1965 (US)
| Format         = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded       = Abbey Road Studios: 20 October 1965
| Genre          = Rock
| Length         = 2:15
| Label          = [[Parlophone]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer         = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer       = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position = 
| Last single    = "[[Help!]]"<br/>(1965)
| This single    = "We Can Work It Out"<br/>(1965)
| Next single    = "[[Paperback Writer]]" <br/>(UK-1966) / "[[Nowhere Man]]" <br/>(US-1965)
| Misc           = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album          = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type           = studio
| prev_track     = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no        = 7
| this_track     = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no       = 8
| next_track     = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no        = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul did the first half, I did the middle-eight. But you've got Paul writing, 'We can work it out/ We can work it out' real optimistic, you know. And me, impatient, 'Life is very short and there's no time/ for fussing and fighting, my friend.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote it as more of an up-tempo thing, country and western. I had the basic idea, the title, had a couple of verses... then I took it to John to finish it off and we wrote the middle together, which is nice-- 'Life is very short/ And there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend.' Then it was George Harrison's idea to put the middle into waltz time, like a german waltz... The lyrics might have been personal. It is often a good way to talk to someone or to work your thoughts out. It saves you going to a psychiatrist, you allow yourself to say what you might not say in person.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}


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