I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
Artists: The New Seekers (peak Billboard position # 7 in 1971-72)
Words and Music by Roquel Davis, Roger John Reginald Greenaway, Roger F.
Cook, and William M. Backer
Adapted from a Coca Cola commercial
Id like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow-white turtle doves
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company
I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills "Ah, peace throughout the land"
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to teach the world to sing (that the world sings today)
In perfect harmony
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
Id like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow-white turtle doves
NOTE: "Call and response" singing can be typed with the background singers'
words in (parentheses) BUT from here on both the lead singer and background
singers are, for the most part, singing simultaneously---which is impossible to
represent typographically.
Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
ronhontz@worldnet.att.net
