Lyr Req: I Want to Know

Subject: Lyr Req: I'D LIKE TO KNOW
From: Jeep man
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 11:47 PM

Sung by Tom Rush. Probably a protest song from the '70's. Sure would like to have the words. Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I
From: Stewie
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 12:29 AM

Jeep man,

There's a transcription here:

Click Here

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Jeep man
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 11:18 AM

Thanks ol buddie. You always come through. Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: GUEST,Snokkered Brawn
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 12:52 PM

Reputed to be Guthrie's last song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Stewie
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 09:04 PM

Collector's Choice label has reissued a remastered version of the Tom Rush album on which this was recorded - his eponymous debut album for Elektra:

Click Here

--Stewie.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: I'D LIKE TO KNOW (Woody Guthrie)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 09:41 PM

Lyrics copied from http://www.insurgentcountry.com/tom_rush_i_d_like_to_know.txt

I'D LIKE TO KNOW
(Woody Guthrie)

 C                     F          C
  Why do your warships ride on my waters?
  C                       D7            G7
  Why do these bombs fall down from the sky?
  C                  F            C
  Why do you burn my towns and my cities?
  C                 G7          C
  I'd like to know. I'd like to know.

I'd like to know, friend. I'd like to know.
Hungry lips ask me wherever I go.
Comrades and friends fallen around me,
I'd like to know. I'd like to know.

You locked me in jail. You threw me in prison.
Your hospital packed, your asylums are full.
Where is my food, my soap, and my warm clothes?
I'd like to know. I'd like to know.

Why are your warships all death to my people?
Nitro explosives, cannons, and bombs.
Where have you taken my sons and my daughters?
I'd like to know. I'd like to know.

[As sung by Tom Rush on "Tom Rush", 1965 Elektra Records]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 01:15 AM

Jim, I'm sure I could've made a mistake, but I sing two of the lines differently...

"There's the hungry beside me where ever I go"

"Why do your warships call death to my people"

All the best! ttr

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 06:42 AM

Thomas: Your lines certainly make more sense. I don't know the song myself; I only copied the lyrics from another website.