What the world needs now is love sweet love, no not just for some but for everyone. 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 until the end of time ^{The song was originally offered to singer Dionne Warwick, who turned it down at the time, saying she felt it was "too country" for her tastes and "too preachy" though she later recorded it for her album Here Where There Is Love. (Warwick also recorded a second version in 1996, which scraped the lower reaches of the US Hot 100.)} .