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Why do your warships  ride on my waters 
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Why do these bombs fall down from the sky 
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Why do you burn my towns and my cities 
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I'd like to know  I'd like to know 
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I'd like to know friend  I'd like to know 
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Hungry lips ask me wherever I go 
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Comrades and friends  fallen around me 
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I'd like to know I'd like to know 
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You locked me in jail you threw me in prison 
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Your hospital packed your asylums are full 
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Where is my food my soap and my warm clothes 
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I'd like to know  I'd like to know 
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Why are your warships all death to my people 
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Nitro explosives cannons and bombs 
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Where have you taken my sons and my daughters 
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I'd like to know I'd like to know