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Wonderful World Beautiful People

by Jimmy Cliff

Biography:

Jimmy Cliff OM (Jamaican Order of Merit) born as James Chambers (1 April 1948, St. Catherine, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is best known among mainstream audiences for songs like "Sittin' in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want," "Many Rivers to Cross" and the title track from The Harder They Come, a film soundtrack which helped popularise reggae across the world.

Cliff moved to Kingston in 1962. After he released two singles that failed to make much of an impression

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Song: Wonderful world, beautiful people
Artist: Jimmy Cliff
Composer: Jimmy Cliff
Album: Jimmy Cliff/ Wonderful world beautiful people

Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
18th Nov 2016

D = xx0232 A = x02220 C = x32010
G = 320033 A7 = x02020 F# = 244322
F#7 = 242322

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[Intro]
D G D G
| / / / / | / / / / |

D G D G
| / / / / | Hey, yeah,...

[Chorus]
D G D G
...Wonderful world, beautiful people,
D G D G
You and your girl, things could be pretty,
A
But underneath this there is a secret,
A7 D C G
That nobody can re - veal, um -umm!

D C A
| / / / / | / / / / |

[Verse 1]
D F# F#7
Take a look at the world,
G D
And the state that it's in to - day,
D F# F#7
I am sure you'll a - gree,
G A
We all could make it a better way,
D F# F#7
With our love, put to - gether,
G A
Every - body learn to love each other!

[Verse 2]
A7 D G
In - stead of fussing and fighting,
D G D G A
Cheating, back - biting, scandal - ising and hating,
A7
Baby, we could have a...

[Chorus]
D G D G
...Wonderful world, beautiful people,
D G D G
You and your girl, things could be pretty,
A
But underneath this there is a secret,
A7 D C G
That nobody can re - veal------! Yeah, now!

D C A
| / / / / | / / / / |

[Verse 3]
D F# F#7
Man and woman, girl and boy,
G D
Let us try to give a helping hand,
D F# F#7
This I know, and I'm sure,
G A A7
That with love we all could under - stand,
D F# F#7
This is our world, can't you see?
G A A7
Every - body wants to live, and be free!

[Verse 4]
D G
Instead of fussing and fighting,
D G D G A
Cheating, back - biting, scandal - ising and hating,
A7
Yeah, we could have a...

[Chorus]
D G D G
...Wonderful world, beautiful people,
D G D G
You and your girl, things could be pretty,
A
But underneath this there is a secret,
A7 D C G
That nobody can re - veal! Umm -umm,
D C A A7
Yeah, yeah! Talking 'bout the...

[Coda]
D G D G
...Wonderful world, beautiful people,
D G
Talkin' about...
(You and your girl----!)

D G
...You, talkin' about...
(Things could be pretty----!)

D G D G
...me, talkin' about Nixon,
(Wonderful world, beautiful people!)

D G D G
Harold Wilson, Pompi - dou,
(Wonderful world, beautiful people!)

D G D G
And Kos - ygin, every little bit helps now,
(Wonderful world, beautiful people!)

D G D G
Do what you can, every little bit helps now,
(Wonderful world, beautiful people!)

[Live ending]
G D
Oh----, yeah!