Chords for The New Seekers on BBC Breakfast

and it became the first advertisement to have a hit song.
The New Seekers are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with a UK tour.
We have Paul Leighton, Mick Finn and Donna Jones all here this morning.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you all?
Good, thank you.
You've come equipped with guitar.
You're prepared to sing, aren't you?
But before we do that, I'll have a little bit of a look at you over the years.
_ _ From the first time we met I [A] knew I'd never end in love for [D] you.
I've got a never-end _ for you.
_ From now on that's all [D] I want to do.
[F] _ _ [Fm] You're a fool and a [C] _ _ [Am] man he goes. _
[Dm] You won't find [G] a fool [C] like me.
[D] Well, just you know what I'm thinking.
Looking at those images, I can't help but think
things were so nice and gentle and sweet then, weren't they?
Happy, happy.
It is interesting, isn't it?
I had that feel about it.
That kind of music doesn't really seem to exist anymore.
_ [N]
Fortunately.
Not really.
Well, fortunately.
There are more melodic songs coming back into the charts, I think.
There's some nice songs about.
Paul, you've been in the band the longest.
It started out as The Seekers, didn't it, and became The New Seekers.
It's had a sort [B] of ever-changing line, hasn't it?
That was a different group, The [G] Seekers.
They actually broke up in 68
[N] and their founder member decided to form a new group but with two girl singers,
like an insurance policy, because Judith Dumb had left The Seekers.
That's how we were created.
We were put together initially.
And you're now going on tour.
So there is clearly a demand.
And who comes to your concerts?
Do you have a younger audience following now?
We do.
Our old fans.
Our new, young, old fans come to our shows.
Which are they?
No, we have a mixed audience, really.
A mixed audience.
The younger ones are coming now, which is great.
The song that people will know you for most, of course, is the one linked with Coca-Cola.
[Eb] Did you make an enormous amount of money from that song?
Huge.
Because people were thinking, you should have done if you didn't.
We'd like to think we did.
It just didn't work out like that.
It doesn't, does it?
What was the story of that song?
It was one of many jingles we recorded for McCann [A] Erickson, Coca-Cola's advertising agency.
And it just started to get played like crazy on American local [B] radio stations.
So much so that the record company we were signed to felt, we have to put out a full length version of it.
So in its original form, as the advertising [D] song, because it was I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke, wasn't [N] it?
So that was getting played.
And what the record company says_
We've got to make a record out of that, because there were so many calls coming into the radio stations.
Saying, where can we get hold of that jingle?
Well, you brought the guitar in, so do you want to give us a little_
It just happened.
A little burst.
[D] We forgot to say that tomorrow we start our [F] tour at the Shaw [C] Theatre in London.
So we're going home to it.
40th anniversary tour.
Absolutely.
[Eb] Give us a little moment then. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'd like to build the world a [F] home
And furnish it with love
[Bb] Grow apple trees and honeybees
[Ab] And snow white [Eb] turtle doves
I'd like to teach the world to sing
[F] In perfect harmony
_ [Bb] And I'd like to hold it in my arms
[Ab] And keep it [Eb] company
_ I'd like to see the world for once
[F] All standing hand in hand
[Bb] And hear them echo through the hills
[Ab] _ _ _
[Eb] That's the song I hear _
Let the world sing [F] today
[Bb] _
_ _ [Eb] I'd like to teach the world to sing
[F] In perfect [Bb]
harmony
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [N] You know what?
There's not many singers who come on and are prepared to sing.
Absolutely.
I'm just wondering, has there ever been a better kind of feel-good song than that?
It's almost like it _ makes you feel better.
It might be very slushy but it's good.
And I have to say, the audiences, wherever we go, they always have to stand up to that.
And do you mind that?
Because some groups get associated with a certain song
and it can be hard to kind of break through and promote the other stuff.
No, we finish up the act with it because we like to get them joining in and singing along and we have a party.
And did you know, who actually wrote that?
It was four writers in fact, the two writers of the jingle originally
and then collaborated with Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway.
And when you first played it, did you know that it was something rather special that had a good feel about it?
No.
Not as a jingle, no.
It was just one of many.
But then they basically took the back track of the jingle, edited it together three times
and that made the full length song and then we recorded it and then we knew we had something.
Brilliant.
It's funny how things turn out.
Just like our new album.
We've got a new album coming out soon.
I thought I'd just mention that.
[A] Absolutely.
We've got every fucking weekend.
The 40th anniversary tour.
Lovely to see you.
Nice to see you here this morning.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very