Wonderful Life Chords

Easy tutorial for beginners with some explanations, the tab, the lyrics and the chords to play the song Wonderful Life chords by Katie Melua on guitar.

Wonderful Life with chords

The two parts are played in the same way.

We will therefore only look at part 1, bridge and chorus.

Chords | Wonderful Life

To play the song Wonderful Life, you need to learn and know the four next chords :

wonderful life chords

When these positions are mastered, you can continue with the following explanations to play this music with your guitar.

If you’re just starting out and are having trouble with bar chords on guitar, try our online guitar lessons.

Part 1 of the Katie Melua music

The song starts with part 1. Using the chords you just learned, follow the tab below to play the two verse of first part:

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.

wonderful life guitar
Tab text
Em D7 G
Here I go out to see again
D7 Em
The sunshine fills my hair
D7 G
And dreams hang in the air
Em D7 G
Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes
D7 Em
You know it feels unfair
D7 G
There’s magic everywhere

When the first part is finished, you can go on and play the bridge and the chorus before starting the second part with your guitar.

Part 2 is played like part 1.

Bridge of the song

The song Wonderful Life chords is composed of a chorus preceded by a bridge. This bridge is not played in the same way as the verses of the first part. The chords order changes and the Am is added. Help yourself to the following tab :

wonderful life lyrics
Tab text
Em D7
Look at me standing
Em (or G) Am
Here on my own again
Em D7 G D7
Up straight in the sunshine

When the bridge is mastered, you can play the chorus.

Chorus of Wonderful Life by Katie Melua

The last thing you need to do to master all this music on your guitar is to play the chorus.

As you can see in the lyrics map, between part 1 and part 2 there is a bridge and a chorus that are different from the parts and that you have to learn to play the song by Katie Melua :

Katie melua chords
Tab text
Em G
No need to run and hide
Em Am D7
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life
Em G
No need to laugh or cry
Em Am D7
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life

When you have finished and learned how to play part 1, the bridge and the chorus, all you have to do is follow the lyrics of the song. I remind you that part 2 is played exactly like part 1.

Wonderful Life video with tab

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Wonderful Life lyrics

The song Wonderful Life chords is composed of two parts as well as a bridge and a chorus.

The structure of the lyrics is simple:

Part 1 – Bridge – Chorus – Part 2 – Bridge – Chorus

Part 1

Here I go out to see again
The sunshine fills my hair
And dreams hang in the air

Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes
You know it feels unfair
There’s magic everywhere

Bridge

Look at me standing
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine

Chorus

No need to run and hide
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh or cry
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life

Part 2

The sun’s in your eyes, the heat is in your hair
They seem to hate you
Because you’re there

And I need a friend, oh, I need a friend
To make me happy
Not stand there on my own

Bridge

Chorus

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PDF score for beginners to play Wonderful Life

The following score is a “home-made” easy PDF score for beginners that we created according to the above frameworks and explanations.

This score summarizes everything we just covered. You can download it for free to play the song of Wonderful Life chords on guitar.