Children of the world reach out,

to touch another land.

Children of the world reach out,

to clasp an offered hand.

 

Close your eyes and think about,

those children arm in arm.

A chain that circles round our world,

to keep it safe from harm.

 

And then in many different tongues,

their voices raised in song.

The children of the world will heal

the hate and fear and wrong.

 

So children of the world reach out,

to touch another land.

Please children of the world reach out,

to clasp that offered hand.

 
 

David Garlick, Victoria, 1990