I Want To Live Chords by John Denver

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[Am] _ _ _ [D] The celebration of Christmas is truly in a sense the [G] celebration of the birth of a child.
[A] And I believe [D] that no matter _ what color you are, no matter what language you [G] speak, no
matter [E] the form of your politics or the [G] expression of your faith, _ I believe that the birth [Em] cry
of every [C] newborn baby everywhere is [A] the same.
It [G] says, I want to live.
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[D] _ _ [G] There are children raised in sorrow on [Em] a scorched and barren plain.
There [C] are children [Am] raised beneath the golden [G] sun.
_ [D] _ _ There [G] are children of the water _ and [Em] children of the sand.
And [C] they cry out through the [Am] universe, [F] their voices raised as one.
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[G] _ _ I want to grow.
I [C] want to see.
And I want to know.
I [Bm] want to share what I can [C] give.
I [D] want to be.
I want [G] to live. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Have [G] you gazed out on the ocean?
_ [Em] Seen the breaching of a whale?
_ [C] Have you watched the dolphins [Am] frolic in the [G] _ foam? _
[D] _ _ Have you heard the song the humpback hears [Em] 500 miles away? _
[Bm] Telling [C] tales of [Am] ancient history, _ [F] of passages [D] and hope. _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ I want to grow.
I want to [C] see.
And I want to know.
I want to [Bm] share what [C] I can give.
I [D] want to be.
[G] I want to _ _ [A] live.
_ [Am] For the worker, _ the warrior, [Em] the lover, and the liar.
[F] For the native and the [Am] _ wanderer [G] and kind.
_ _ [E] _ [Am] For the maker _ and the user, _ [Em] the mother and her son.
_ [F] I am looking for [Am] my family _ [F] and all of you [D] are _ _ mine.
_ [G] We are standing all together, _ [Em] face to face, arm in arm.
[C] We are standing on [Am] the threshold [G] of a dream.
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_ [G] No more hunger, no more killing, no [Em] more wasting life away.
It [C] is simply [Am] an idea and [F] I know its time [D] has come. _ _
I [G] want to live.
I [G] want to grow.
I want [C] to see.
And I want to know.
I want [Bm] to share what [C] I can give.
I want [D] to be.
_ [G] I want to live and I want to grow.
[C] I want to see and I want to know.
I want [Bm] to share what I [A] can give.
I want to be.
[D] I [G] want to live and I want to grow.
I [C] want to see and I want to know.
[Bm] I want to share what I [A] can give.
I want to [D] be. _ _ _
I want [G] to _ live. _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ I [D] want to live.
_ _ I [A] want to [G] _ _ live.
I _ _ _ _ _ _ want to live.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] John Denver's Montana Christmas [Dm] Skies will continue.
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