What a Wonderful World Chords

Easy tutorial for beginners with some explanations, the tab, the lyrics and the chords to play What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong on guitar.

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 :

chords what a wonderful world

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.

lyrics what a wonderful world
Tab text
CM7 Em F Em
I see trees so green, red roses too
Dm7 CM7 E7 Am
I see them bloom for me and you
Ab Dm7 G7 CM7 Am7 Dm7 G7
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

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

chords guitar


… and look at the following tab to play the end of this last phrase :

tab
Tab text
Ab Dm7 G7 CM7 F CM7
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

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 :

armstrong guitar
Tab text
G7 CM7
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
G7 CM7
Are also on the faces of people going by
Am7 Em Am7 Em
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
Am7 C#°7 Dm7 G7
They’re really saying I love you

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.