I created this ukulele sing-along for What a Wonderful World as a reference for my Happy Valley Ukes players … I LOVE this song, and though I don’t sing it with the gravel of Satchmo, I hope you enjoy my version anyway.

I’ve put in chord diagrams for LOTS of ‘up the neck’ inversions of chords … if you know your root position chords, go ahead and substitute; I arranged with the thought of more than one player singing and strumming together, with some on the roots and some on the inversions.

Also, I’m playing this in a very staccato jazz-like manner … if you are playing in a group it would be nice to add some people on fingerpicked arpeggios to get that 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 groove going that really makes this song a 12/8 rather than a 4/4 song. Using string numbers in a pattern, you would do 3 2 4 1 4 2 3 2 4 1 4 2 to get an ascending/descending arpeggio (I usually just alternate my thumb and first finger on this pattern).

Nicely legal copies of the sheet music can be purchased at http://bit.ly/wonderfulworldukulele

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