I Want To Live Chords by John Denver

_ _ _ _ _ [N] For many, many people, it is a very, very desperate time [G] here on planet Earth.
This song [C] was written for them.
It was written out of the proposition that [D] all men and women are truly created equal,
that everywhere [G] people are the same, no matter [D#] the color of your skin, no matter the language
you speak, no matter the form of your politics or the expression of your faith.
Truly, as human beings, in our desires, our hopes, and our [C#] dreams, our frustrations, our
[D] vision, we are all the same.
And certainly, certainly children are the same. _
This song comes from what I believe is heard in the birth cry of every newborn baby.
It 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 raised [Am] beneath the golden [G] sun.
[D] _ [G] There are children of the water [Em] and children of the sand.
[C] And they cry out [Am] through the universe.
[F] Their voices [D] raise as one.
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Live.
I want to grow.
[C] I want to see.
And I want to know.
I [Bm] want to share all I [C] can give.
I [D] want to be.
[G] I want to _ _ live.
[D] _ _ Have you gazed out on the ocean?
Seen [Em] the breaching of a whale?
Have you watched the dolphins [Am] frolic in the [G] fall?
_ [D] Have [G] you heard the song the humpback hears [Em] 500 miles away?
Telling tales of [Am] ancient history, [F] of passages [D] and home.
[G] I want to live.
I want to grow.
[C] I want to see.
And I want to know.
[Bm] I want to share.
[C] _ [D] I want to be.
[G] I want to _ live.
[E] For the [Am] worker and the warrior, [Em] the lover and the liar.
[F] For the native [Am] and the [G] wanderer in kind.
_ [Am] For the maker and the user, [Em] the mother and her son.
[F] I'm looking [Am] for my family [F] and all of [D] you are mine.
_ [G] We are standing all together, [Em] face to face, arm in arm.
[C] We are standing [Am] on the threshold [G] of the dream.
[D] _ [G] No more hunger.
No more killing.
[Em] No more wasting life away.
[C] It is simply [Am] an idea.
[F] And I know it's [D] time.
_ _ [G] I want to live.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bm] I want to share.
[C] _ [D] I want to be.
[G] I want to live.
And I want to grow.
[C] I want to see.
I [Bm] want to share.
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C]
I want to be.
I want to live.
I want [Bm] to share.
I want [A] _ [D] to be.
I want [G] to live.
I want to grow.
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I want to [Bm] share.
I want to be. _ _ _
I want to [G] live.
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[D] I want to live.
I want to [G] live. _
_ _ _ _ I want to live.
I want to share.
I want to live. _ _
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