What A Wonderful World Lyrics Details
Song – What A Wonderful World
Artist – Louis Armstrong
Album – What A Wonderful World
Writers – Bob Thiele, George David Weiss
Produced By – Bob Thiele
Released Date – 1 September 1967
What A Wonderful World Lyrics
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 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 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”
I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more
Than I’ll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh yeah
What A Wonderful World Lyrics In Spanish
Veo árboles de verde
Rosas rojas también
Los veo florecer
Para mí y para ti
Y pienso para mí mismo
Qué mundo tan maravilloso
Veo cielos de azul
Y nubes de blanco
El día bendito y brillante
La oscura noche sagrada
Y pienso para mí mismo
Qué mundo tan maravilloso
Los colores del arco iris
Tan bonito en el cielo
También están en las caras
De personas que pasan
Veo amigos dándose la mano
Diciendo: “¿Cómo lo haces?”
Realmente están diciendo
“Te amo”
Escucho llorar a los bebés
Los veo crecer
Aprenderán mucho más
De lo que nunca sabré
Y pienso para mí mismo
Qué mundo tan maravilloso
Sí, creo que para mí mismo
Qué mundo tan maravilloso
Venga, sí
Louis Armstrong was an unwitting CIA spy
There was a time when a figure as iconic as Louis Armstrong was used by the United States Government for its own purposes disguising a CIA mission on the artist’s tour of the African continent. Armstrong, as revealed in the recently published book White Malice, its author, Susan Williams, was used as a “Trojan horse” by the US intelligence agency to move more freely through the regions of interest.
According to Il Giornale and The Guardian, which have echoed part of the content of Williams’ book, it was in 1960, in the context of the Cold War, when Armstrong, accompanied by his fourth wife, Lucilla Wilson, began a tour of the African continent. There, in the city of Leopoldville, he was invited to a dinner attended by Larry Devlin, head of the CIA in the Congo. The author of the aforementioned book, who has had access to documents of the time and carried out a profuse investigation during five years, concludes that the trumpeter was used as an involuntary spy.
The tour lasted several months and was sponsored by the State Department. The idea that they ‘sold’ to its protagonist was to improve the image of the United States on the continent and, specifically, in the countries that had just freed themselves from colonialism. However, the reality is that the CIA agents hatched a plan to take advantage of Armstrong’s movements and his popularity to gather data and information.
Armstrong was basically a Trojan horse for the CIA. It is truly heartbreaking. He was hired to serve an interest that was completely contrary to his own sense of right or wrong. He would have been horrified, ”said Susan Williams, a researcher at the University of London’s School for Advanced Studies, who discusses the agency’s activities in West and Central Africa between 1950 and the early 1960s.
The artist’s visits to different cities were only a cover for the CIA agents to be able to move more freely without raising suspicions. In addition, Armstrong’s presence made it easier for them to access some circles and information. One of the most interesting places was the uranium-rich Katanga region.
According to Williams in his book, at that time, and fearing that Patrice Lumumba, the president of the Congo elected at the polls, would align himself with Russia, the CIA planned to eliminate him. Two months after the tour he was assassinated and that made it possible for Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, who had collaborated with the agency, to come to power.
Devlin, who cheated on Armstrong at that dinner by posing as a diplomat, later claimed that the CIA had given up its interest in killing the Congolese president months before he was assassinated.
Armstrong drew inspiration from his trip to Africa for the musical The Real Ambassadors, in which he spoke about what he felt representing the United States on that 1960 trip when he was 58 years old. “Although I represent the government, the government does not represent some of the policies that I am for,” he said.
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