[Song for World Peace] I'd like to Teach The World to Sing

[Song for World Peace]

I'd like to Teach The World to Sing

"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)" is a popular song which originated as the jingle "Buy the World a Coke" in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola. "Buy the World a Coke" was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love sung by a multicultural collection of teenagers on the top of a hill. "Buy the World a Coke" repeated "It's the real thing" as Coca-Cola's marketing theme at the time.

The popularity of the jingle led to it being re-recorded by The New Seekers and by The Hillside Singers as a full-length song, dropping references to Coca-Cola. The song became a hit record in the US and the UK.

I'd like to Teach The World to sing

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

And 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 in perfect harmony

(That's the song I hear)

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