I Want To Live - John Denver

I Want To Live chords

Intro:G      Am  D7

          G                                 Em
There are children raised in sorrow    on a scorched 
                              C                 Am
and barren plain    there are children raised beneath 
           G   D7               G
the golden sun        there are children of the water  
Em                                 C  
children of the sand      and they cry throughout 
    Am                   F                D
the universe       their voices raised as one

                  G                               C
CHORUS: I want to live  I want to grow  I want to see 
                          B#m                C
I want to know  I want to share   what I can give 
          D             G
I want to be  I want to live

         G                                Em   
Have you gazed out on the ocean, seen the breaching 
                       C     
of a whale    have you watched the dolphins 
Am            G     D7             G

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frolic in the foam        have you heard the sound 
                        Em
the humpback hears five hundred miles away   
        C                Am          F            D
telling tales of ancient history  of passages and home


REPEAT CHORUS

        Am                          Em
For the worker and the warrior  the lover and the liar
        F              Am          G    D7
for the native and the wanderer in kind    
        Am                          Em
for the maker and the user      the mother and her son  
     F              Am            F              D    
I am looking for my family    and all of you are mine

       G                              Em
We are standing all together  face to face and arm in arm
       C               Am             G    D7
We are standing on the threshold of a dream   
        G                               Em
no more hunger no more killing  no more wasting life away  
      C         Am            F                  D
it is simply an idea    and I know it's time has come


REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
    
    C    D          G        C    D          G
END:      I want to live           I want to live