I changed the thread title.

Stainer & Bell, the publisher of Sydney Carter's songbook "In the Present Tense, Book 2," has a web site in which they list the contents of the book. There, the title has "want to." John MacKenzie gave the link above.

Doug Chadwick reports that he has the album on "vynil." I assume he's not too particular about spelling.

Frankly, I never dreamed anyone would object to changing "wanna" to "want to." Many other threads have had their titles corrected in similar ways, and no one that I know of has ever objected.

I hadn't noticed this before, but I see there are 3 earlier threads about this song: one, two, three. They all have "want to."

Jack: I'll change this one back to "wanna" if that's what you really want.