My personal cue card, reduced to essentials, from the sheet music of What a Wonderful World. This is one of the songs I’m doing with Happy Valley Ukes in April 2021. You can read about cue cards here. See below the image for additional info on this cue card.

What a Wonderful World follows the classic AABA-Coda structure of many golden-age-of-Broadway musicals (aka 32-Bar Form). Each of the A-sections ends with the refrain “and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” After the second A, you move on to the B-section (also known as the ‘middle eight’) and then go back to the A-section for the third time. Lastly you skip down to the Coda (not all AABA songs have a coda, but it is nice when they do as it helps wrap up the song). Something else that makes this song extra classy, as well as a little more difficult to memorize is that each of the A-sections has a different set of chords when you get to the last word of the refrain, ‘world.’ This really moves the song nicely and gives the audience some ear-candy.

This is probably the most difficult song I’m doing with the Happy Valley Ukes this season. I already created a sing-along to help. See http://ukuleleplay.com/what-a-wonderful-world-ukulele-sing-along/

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