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What The World Needs Now Is Love (chrom)

by Burt Bacharach · posted by WaltP

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WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE
W: Hal David
M: Burt Bacharach
Key: G
3/4 time

  2   3    -5   -5   -4
What the world needs now 
-1  -5    -5    -4
Is love, sweet love; 
-3    3  -3  2   3
It's the on-ly thing 
  2     3     -4  -1  -4  -3  -3
That there's just too lit-tle of. 
  2   3    -5    -5  -4
What the world needs now  
-1  -5    -5    -4
Is love, sweet love, 
-3   3   -3   2    3
No, not just for some 
 2   3  -4 -3 -4
but for ev-ry-one. 
 -2*  -2* -2*   -2* 3  -3  -4  -2*  -2*
Lord, we don't need an-oth-er moun-tain, 
 -4   -2*   2    3   -4
There are moun-tains and  
 -3    -4  3   -1  2    2
hill-sides e-nough to climb; 
  3   -1  2   3   -4  -3  -4
There are o-ceans and riv-ers  
3  -1   2    2   -2*  3   3    3
e-nough to cross, e-nough to last; 
 2    2  -2*  3  -3
till the end of time. 
 
  2   3    -5   -5   -4
What the world needs now 
-1  -5    -5    -4
Is love, sweet love; 
-3    3  -3  2   3
It's the on-ly thing 
  2     3     -4  -1  -4  -3  -3
That there's just too lit-tle of. 
  2   3    -5    -5  -4
What the world needs now  
-1  -5    -5    -4
Is love, sweet love, 
-3   3   -3   2    3
No, not just for some 
 2   3  -4 -3 -4
but for ev-ry-one. 

 -2* -2*  -2*  -2*  3  -3  -4 -2* -2*
Lord, we don't need an-oth-er mea-dow, 
 -4   -2*  2     3 
There are corn-fields 
-4   -3     -4   3  -1   2    2
and wheat-fields e-nough to grow; 
  3   -1   2    3   -4   -3   -4
There are sun-beams and moon-beams 
3  -1   2    2
e-nough to shine, 
-2*  3   3     3   2   2   -2*  3  -3 
Oh, lis-ten, Lord, if you want to know:

  2   3    -5   -5   -4
What the world needs now 
-1  -5    -5    -4
Is love, sweet love; 
-3    3  -3  2   3
It's the on-ly thing 
  2     3     -4  -1  -4  -3  -3
That there's just too lit-tle of. 
  2   3    -5    -5  -4
What the world needs now  
-1  -5    -5    -4
Is love, sweet love, 
-3   3   -3   2    3
No, not just for some 
 2   3  -4 -3 -4
but for ev-ry-one. 

-3   3   -3   2    3
No, not just for some, 
2    3   -5   6  -4 -32-1 23
Oh, but just for ev- ry- one. 


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