Continuing along the track I started to set yesterday, here is a song that's perfect for Christmas, yet not a Christmas song in the traditional sense. Joy, peace, and harmony, that's what Christmas should be about. It's too bad that it's become what it has, for if we really, truly followed what the season is supposed to be about, the world would be so much a better place. (Yup, I'm still kind of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas, lol).
Anyhow, I was seven years old when I first heard this song, and like many of you who know it, you know it from the 1971 Coca Cola television commercial. The commercial showed a multi-cultural group of teenagers singing about peace and harmony...and of course, Coke! The song became so popular, it was recorded without the Coke references by a group called the New Seekers and hit the top ten in the U.S. Here are both versions of the song, starting with the original...
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