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Thread #83298   Message #899312
Posted By: masato sakurai
26-Feb-03 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Origin: I Come and Stand at Every Door / Hiroshima
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hiroshima child
From Pete Seeger, Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies (Sing Out, 1993, p. 106):

I COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR
(Girl of Hiroshima)
Original Turkish poem by Nazim Hikmet. English translation by Jeanette Turner
Music by James Waters ("The Great Silkie"). Adapted by Pete Seeger (1962)

I [D]come and [C]stand at [Am7]ev'ry [D]door,
But [Bm]none can [Em7]hear my [A7]silent [D]tread,
[G]I knock and [D/F#]yet re-[Em7]main un-[D]seen,
For [Em]I am [Em/B]dead, for [C]I am [D]dead.