I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
(R. Cook/R. Greenway/B. Backer/B. Davis)

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

Chorus:
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
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to see the world for once
(Let the world sing today)
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
That's the song I hear
(That's the song I hear)
Let the world sing today
(Let the whole wide world keep singing)
A song of peace that echoes on
And never goes away

(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)

Put your hand in my hand
Let's begin today
Put your hand in my hand
Help me find a way

(Repeat Chorus til fade)



The Greatest Love Of All
(L. Creed/M. Masser)
[Ed. note: Personally I don't believe
'loving yourself' is the Greatest Love of All
as this song implies. The greatest love of all
is to sacrifice your happiness or needs for
someone else, then and only then can you
find true peace and happiness. This is the
love espoused by Jesus Christ, truly the
Greatest Love of All. But this song has
some nice sentiments to it.]

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride
To make it easier
Let the children's laughter
Remind us how we used to be

Everybody's searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my need
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Chorus:
I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadow
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I lived as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love others
Is the greatest love of all

(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)

And if by chance that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love



The Love of Jesus
Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)

Jesus loves me - this I know,
For the Bible tells me so,
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells me so.




The Hallelujah Chorus
George Frederich Handel

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

The kingdom of this world is become
the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and of His Christ;
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever

King of Kings,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
and Lord of Lords,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

King of Kings,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
and Lord of Lords,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

King of Kings,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
and Lord of Lords,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever

King of Kings
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

and He shall reign for ever and ever,
for ever and ever,
King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords,
King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords,
and He shall reign for ever and ever,

King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!




Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies for instance.
The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin (1819-1900)


You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than you do to consume wealth without producing it.
from Candida (1898) Act I
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)



There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it.
Man and Superman (1903) Act IV
George Bernard Shaw



'Who will exchange old lamps for new?'
The Arabian Nights or 1,001 Nights Entertainment
The History of Aladdin


Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Three Monkeys carved over door of
the Sacred Stable in Nikko, Japan
a Japanese legend



All the brothers were valiant,
and all the sisters virtuous.
Inscription on
the Duchess of Newcastle's tomb
in Westminster Abbey (1673)



Speak in silver, reply in gold.
Ancient Swahili saying


The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
from Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost



King Winter's in the wood,
I saw him go,
Crowned with a coronet,
Of crystal snow.
Eileen Mathias



Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet:
there's always one determined to face in an
opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox


Children are our immortality;
in them we see the story of our life
rewritten in a fairer hand.
Alfred North Whitehead



The circus is a place where horses,
ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Ambrose Bierce



Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,

stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed,

people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues.

The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
Will Durant, author (with wife Ariel Durant)
of The History of Civilization



Failure is God's own tool for carving some of
the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin



Memory is what God gave us
so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie, English playwright,
Author of Peter and Wendy,
which later became Peter Pan



The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
from The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900)
Colonel Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919),
changed to 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road'
in the movie version by the same name (1939)


Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy to her dog Toto in the movie
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) starring Judy Garland



Somewhere, over the rainbow Bluebirds fly,
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
lyrics from 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' sung in
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) by Judy Garland



"Curioser and Curioser!" cried Alice.
from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)



When the baby laughed for the first time,
the laugh broke into a thousand pieces
and they all went skipping about,
and that was the beginning of fairies.
from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)



Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies'
there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)



Do you believe in fairies, if you do then clap your hands.
from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)



Imagination creates reality.
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner



Love the true because it is also the beautiful.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres





There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother
Abraham Lincoln

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare

Innocence plays in the backyard, ignorance plays in the front.
Bill King

Being sorry is good, being innocent is perfect.
Bill King

Ignorance is sin and innocence is not.
Bill King after Robert Browning

Innocence is an incredible perfume.
Bill King

Innocence charms us, ignorance offends us.
Bill King after M. McLaughlin

Innocence in thinking is like noblesse oblige is to politics.
Bill King

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory
Mahatma Gandhi

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to

believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end
Lise Hand

It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the

essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon.
Patricia Linden

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
James Arthur Baldwin

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius

Heaven lives at the feet of mothers
Muhammad

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Jane Ann Taylor

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
Anonymous

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

A Mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever
Unknown

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot

A mother understands what a child does not say.
Anonymous

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln

Men are what their mothers made them
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling

My mother is a walking miracle...
Leonardo DiCaprio

All mothers are working mothers
Unknown

Oh, Mother, you go home too early!
Edward Albee

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking,
it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking
Helen Steiner Rice

I really learned it all from mothers.
Benjamin Spock

Step on a crack; break your mother's back
American Proverb

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Even children of the same mother look different
Anonymous

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one
Jill Churchill

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
Kahlil Gibran

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
[Ed. note: Now, isn't that sad on both accounts.]
Clarence S. Darrow

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Anonymous

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
Douglas Feaver

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch

All the people like us are We,
and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling

Teach us delight in simple things, and joy that has no bitter springs
Rudyard Kipling [adapted by JWK, joy sub for mirth]

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations -
as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
Rudyard Kipling

All we have of freedom - all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men:
They taught me all I knew:
Their names are What and Why
and When and How
and Where and Who
Rudyard Kipling


HELLO YOUNG LOVERS
Music by Richard Rodgers
Words by Oscar Hammerstein

Hello, young lovers, whoever you are,
I hope that your troubles are few;
All my good wishes go with you tonight -
I've been in love like you.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star;
Be brave and faithful and true.
Cling very close to each other tonight -
I've been in love like you.

(Bridge:)
I know how it feels to have wings on your heels
And to fly down the street in a trance;
You fly down the street on a chance that you'll meet,
And you meet not really by chance.

Don't cry, young lovers, whatever you do,
Don't cry because I'm alone;
All of my mem'ries are happy tonight -
I've had a love of my own.

(Coda:)
I've had a love of my own, like yours,
I've had a love of my own.