I Want To Live

John Denver

Tom: G

           G
there are children raised in sorrow
       E
On a scorched and barren plain
           C                Am                  G
There are children raised beneath a golden sun
D7         G
There are children of the water
 Em
Children of the sand
          C                   Am
And they cry out through the universe
        E              D    Dsus4
Their voices raised as one

D         G               Gmaj7
I want to live i want to grow
          C              Cadd9
I want to see i want to know
            F                C
I want to share what i can give
          D              G
I want to be i want to live

         G
Have you gazed out on the ocean
           Em
Seen the breaching of a whale?
           C                  Am                  G
Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam?
D7          G                                    Em
Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles away
         C                Am         E
Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home?

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

        G
We are standing all together
        Em
Face to face and arm in arm
        C               Am                   G
We are standing on the threshold of a dream
D7        G
No more hunger no more killing
           Em
No more wasting life away
        G        Am
It is simply an idea
        E                D
And i know its time has come