Lirik Id Like To Teach The World To Sing

The Hillside Singers

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. BackerAdapted from a Coca Cola commercialId like to build the world a homeAnd furnish it with loveGrow apple trees and honey bees and snow-white turtle dovesI'd like to teach the world to singIn perfect harmonyI'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it companyI'd like to see the world for onceAll standing hand in handAnd 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<See Note below>I'd like to teach the world to singIn perfect harmonyId like to build the world a homeAnd furnish it with loveGrow apple trees and honey bees and snow-white turtle dovesNOTE: "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. Hontzronhontz@worldnet.att.net