Barbra Streisand

Released: November 2, 2018

Songwriter: Hal David Burt Bacharach

Producer: Barbra Streisand Walter Afanasieff

[Chorus]
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, but for everyone

[Verse 1]
Oh Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time

[Chorus]
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
Yes, it's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, but for everyone
Everyone, everyone

[Verse 2]
Lord, we don't need another meadow (Another meadow)
There are corn fields and wheat fields enough to grow
(Enough to grow, enough to grow)
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
(Enough to shine)
Oh listen, Lord (Listen, Lord)
If You really wanna to know (If you wanna know)

[Chorus]
What the world needs now (Needs now)
Is love, sweet love, sweet love (It's the only thing)
It's the only thing (It's the only thing)
(All you need, all you need) That there's just too little of
What the world, what the world needs now (Needs now)
Is love, sweet love (Sweet love)
No, not just for some (No, not just for some, no, not just for some)
But just for every (Everyone)
Every (Everyone)
Everyone

[Outro]
(What the world needs, what the world needs)
We all know what the world needs
(What the world needs, what the world needs
We all need what the world needs)
We all need it
(What the world needs, what the world needs)
That's right (All we need is love, yeah, yeah)
Yes, all we need is love
(What the world needs, what the world needs
What the world needs)
A little bit of love, please, please
(What the world needs, what the world needs)
All we need is love (All we need is love, all you need is love)
(What the world needs, what the world needs, all we need is love)
All we need is love
(Just a little bit of love, real love)
Real love
(All you need is love, just a little bit of love)
Heal the world with love, sweet love
(What the world needs, what the world needs
All you need is love, all you need is love
Could you be loved?)
Could you be loved?

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

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