I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
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
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
“What a Wonderful World” was written in 1968 during the time of the Vietnam War. Performed in the genre of jazz, it was written and composed to try and bring hope to the millions of victims suffering the effects of the war like the loss of the many loved fathers, sons and husbands and the “half cast” children who were sent away from their Vietnamese mothers to a foreign land with foreign people.
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky" That mean the colors of a rainbow in this line and the colors of man in the next are really parts of the same phrase. The colors of the rainbow and the colors of man mirror each other in God’s eyes. Each of the colors is meant to complement the others.
"I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do they're really saying I love you" mean that Louis observes life around him, he sees people bond and develop relationships which, to him, make up for the dark sacred times that he witnesses in the wonderful world.
"I hear babies crying, I watch them grow they'll learn much more than I'll never know" that mean Louis uses a hopeful, optimistic tone with regards to the future in which Armstrong sings about babies being born into a better world and having a lot of look forward to.
This song really fit what was happening at the time because there were a lot of positive things to come out of 1968 and the song looked to the future in relation to these positive things, and if things continued the way they were going, there really was reason for optimism.
