Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderfulworld it would be if only we'd give it a chance.
Suffering subversion is an occupational hazard for earnest, buoyant music, but What A WonderfulWorld is still used in sincere contexts, for example in tribute to the people of Armstrong's hometown New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
The key, he said, to inventing wonderful things the world can't live without is to ask yourself what the world's biggest problems are and then set yourself a target - solving them.