Lyr Req: I Want to Know

03 Jan 03 - 11:47 PM (#858233)
Subject: Lyr Req: I'D LIKE TO KNOW
From: Jeep man

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

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04 Jan 03 - 12:29 AM (#858249)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I
From: Stewie

Jeep man,

There's a transcription here:

Click Here

--Stewie.

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04 Jan 03 - 11:18 AM (#858452)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Jeep man

Thanks ol buddie. You always come through. Jim

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04 Jan 03 - 12:52 PM (#858532)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: GUEST,Snokkered Brawn

Reputed to be Guthrie's last song.

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04 Jan 03 - 09:04 PM (#858858)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Stewie

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.

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05 Feb 03 - 09:41 PM (#883645)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: I'D LIKE TO KNOW (Woody Guthrie)
From: Jim Dixon

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]

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06 Feb 03 - 01:15 AM (#883771)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Thomas the Rhymer

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

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06 Feb 03 - 06:42 AM (#883854)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Want to Know
From: Jim Dixon

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

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