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
C F C
I'd like to know friend I'd like to know
C D7 G7
Hungry lips ask me wherever I go
C F C
Comrades and friends fallen around me
C G7 C
I'd like to know I'd like to know
C F C
You locked me in jail you threw me in prison
C D7 G7
Your hospital packed your asylums are full
C F C
Where is my food my soap and my warm clothes
C G7 C
I'd like to know I'd like to know
C F C
Why are your warships all death to my people
C D7 G7
Nitro explosives cannons and bombs
C F C
Where have you taken my sons and my daughters
C G7 C
I'd like to know I'd like to know
From Tom Rush "Tom Rush"
1965 Elektra Records