John Denver - I Want To Live guitar chord

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

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