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