Artist: Sam Cooke Album:--Released as a single-- Song: Wonderful World Year: 1960 Top Chart Position: #12

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the french I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be. Don't know much about geography, don't know much trigonometry. Don't know much about algebra, don't know what s slide rule is for. But I know that one and one is two, and if this one could be with you, what a wonderful world this would be. I don't claim to be an 'A' student, but I'm tryin' to be. For maybe by being an 'A'-student, baby, I can win your love for me. Don't know much about history, don't know much biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the french I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be. History Biology Science book French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.

Wonderful World is a song about a young man who values his love of a girl more than his studies in school. It is a song that reflects the alternative to Cat’s In The Cradle, Rocketman, and Someday Never Comes. Rather than being obsessed with career and his schooling, the narrator instead concentrates on winning the love of the girl in the song. He says, "and I know that if you love me, too,/What a wonderful world this would be."