What a Wonderful World tutorial chords
The three verses are almost played in the same way.
We will therefore only look at verse 1, end of verse 2 and chorus.
Verse 1 of the jazz song
To play the verse 1, you will have to know and work few first chords :
When you are done working on these positions and master them, you can follow the next plan to play the first verse :
Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.
Then, following the lyrics, you can play verses 2 and 3 in the same way.
End of verse 1 of the Armstrong music
There will be a small change for the last phrase of verse 2. You only need to know one more chord…
… and look at the following tab to play the end of this last phrase :
Chorus of What a Wonderful World
For the chorus, you need to know one last chord :
When these and the previous ones are ready, you can continue to play the chorus following the tab :
What a Wonderful World video with tab
You can play an other music with English lyrics like the song of Oasis Wonderwall.
What a Wonderful World lyrics
The lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong are composed of three verses, and a chorus.
The structure of the lyrics is simple:
Verse 1 – Verse 2 – Chorus – Verse 3
Verse 1
I see trees so green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Verse 2
I see skies so blue and clouds so white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Chorus
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They’re really saying I love you
Verse 3
I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Find other jazz guitar chords and try to improvise with our easy guitar scale.
PDF score for play What a Wonderful World on guitar
The following score is a PDF “home-made” score that we created according to the above frameworks and explanations.
This summarizes everything we just covered. You can download it for free to play the song What a Wonderful World chords by Louis Armstrong on guitar.