Lyrics

I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing

New Seekers 1971/ Cola advert/Arranged Milt Rogers

APOLOGIES for ropy ukulele backing.  Italicised for LOWs. There’s one very wrong chord on the practise track near the end – try not to let it put you off!

Notes: for those with Music score

We’re not using Alto & Bass line. Lows are singing Tenor (but most ladies sing it an octave higher).

Section E :Tune is in the Alto line(3rd down) for 4 bars, then back to top line.

                   Lows sing Alto for 4 bars, then C’s for 2 bars, then last 5 notes are as written for Tenor line

Page 11 Lows “sing it along” notes are F F G A (so the same as the previous “sing it along”

A. I'd like to build the world a home and furnish it with love

     I'd like to build the world a home and furnish it with love

     Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves

    Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves

B.  I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

     I'd like to teach the world to sing …………………………… Perfect harmony

     I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company

     …………………………………………. and keep it company

C. I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand

    I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand

    And hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land

    And hear them echo through the hills      Ooh    -                 -                 That's the song I hear

D. I'd like to teach the world to sing                                in perfect harmony –

                                               That’s the main thing to do             0ver again Doo doo doo doo  

     I'd like to teach the world to sing     in perfect harmony

                                                   Over again…               

E.    (Tune) La la la la la la la la,         la la la la la la,            la la la la la la la la,            la la la la la la

     La la la       La….                         La la…..,                           la la la la la la la la,           la la la la la la

A. I'd like to build the world a home and furnish it with love

     I'd like to build the world a home and furnish it with love

     Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves

    Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves

B.  I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

     I'd like to teach the world to sing …………………………… Perfect harmony

     I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company

     …………………………………………. and keep it company

C. I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand

    I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand

[(p9)Coda]and hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land

                                                                                      Ooh…..                                    That’s the songs I

F. I'd like to teach the world    to   sing                  in  perfect harmony

       .. hear     Sing it along,     that’s the one thing to do….                    o-ver and o-ver

    I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

                    Sing it along…                                                        That’s the song I

     I'd like to teach      the world to sing in perfect harmony, in perfect harmony

           hear     Sing it along                         in perfect harmony, in perfect harmony

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