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

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

It's the real thing

What the world wants today

That's the way it'll stay

With the real thing

I'd like to teach the world to sing

In perfect harmony

A song of peace that echoes on

And never goes away

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

It's the real thing

What the world wants today

That's the way it'll stay

With the real thing

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 teach the world to sing

In perfect harmony

A song of peace that echoes on

And never goes away

I'd like to teach the world to sing

In perfect harmony

A song of peace that echoes on

And never goes away