TRUE JOY TO THE WORLD

(I have always found Joy to the World very paternalistic and imperialist, so here is a non offensive version)

Joy to the world, the year is done!
Let earth comfort all beings;
Let every heart prepare for peace,
And humans and nature sing,
And humans and nature sing,
And humans, and humans, and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, common sense reigns!
Let people conscience employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

No more let wars and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
Peace comes to make blessings flow
Far as the earth is bound,
Far as the earth is bound,
Far as, far as, the earth is bound.

Peace rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of their ideals,
And wonders of true love,
And wonders of true love,
And wonders, wonders, of true love.