Some of you young folks being saying to me "Hey Pops, what do you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How bout all dem wars all over the place - you call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? They aint so wonderful either!" Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute? Seems to me it aint the world that so bad, but what we're doing to it and all I'm saying is "see what a wonderful world it would be if only we give it a chance!" Love baby, love - that's the secret. Yeah! If lots more of us loved each other we'd solve lots more problems, and then this world would be a gasser! That's why old pops keep saying,

I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.

The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky
Are also on the faces.....of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you do
Theyre really sayin......i love you.

I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
Theyll learn much more.....than Ill never know
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself ..... what a wonderful world.

Ooooh yeah!

- The one, the only, Louis Armstrong