Santa's Wish (Teach the World)

One Christmas many years ago when I was just a boy

I walked along those snowy streets, the windows full of toys

My mom and dad both held my hands, a crowd was up ahead

They gathered round a man who sang, and this is what he said

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

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

Then all at once he disappeared within a flash of light

His tattered coat was left behind, his sleigh was taking flight

And still I hear that melody that echoed through the night

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

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

Hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land

Sing it now, oh, oh

As a child, I asked the man in red

Hey Santa, what's your Christmas wish?

And this is what he said

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

Hear them echo through the hills for peace throughout the land

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

Let me hear you now

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

Oh, I'd like to teach the world to sing

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

I'd like to teach the world to sing

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

I'd like to teach the world to sing

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

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