Wonderful World
Words and music by Sam Cooke
Additional words/apologies to S. Cooke by Tim Burke
Don’t know much geography
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about 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 ...
Don’t know much geometry
Don’t know much trigonometry
Don’t know much about algebra
Don’t know what a slide ruler’s for
But I do know one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a ...
(bridge)
Now I don’t claim to be an A student
But I’m tryin to be
Cause maybe by bein' an A student, baby
I could win your love for me
(extra verses)
Don’t know much about plate tectonics
Can’t read the directions to “Hooked on Phonics”
My parabolas make an assymptote of me
And I still can’t find the capital of Tallahassee
Well I can’t factor buttress stress coefficients
Can’t analyze covalent grid infarctions
I trip over my own iambic feet and
I thought a cretin was somebody from Crete
(bridge #2)
Now I do know many ships disappear in the Bermuda rhombus
And I know General Custer died arm-wrestling with Pocahantas
But shouldn’t it be “pi IS squared," not "pi ARE squared”?