This is the tab for "Life is Wonderful" by Jason Mraz. Tabbed by Sean Tyson.
...There are other tabs out there that are on key and use bar chords. But if you're
like me (and you can't sing that high) you'll like this version more. It is done in
a different key, and is comprised almost completely of open chords (opposed to bar
chords) so it sounds much, much nicer. I wanted to provide an open-chord version -
a couple keys lower - for everyone... So here it is.
The chords are described first, and the song is laid out with the lyrics below. Enjoy!
Chords:
Em Am C G B7 D
e-------------------------------3-------2-------2----------|
b---------------1-------1-------3---------------3----------|
g---------------2-----------------------2-------2----------|
d-------2-------2-------2---------------1------------------|
a-------2---------------3-------2-------2------------------|
e-------------------------------3--------------------------|
Optional variations/additions to those chords:
Em Am C Bm Bm F# F# F#
e-------3------(3)-----(3)------7---------------------------------------|
b-------3-------1(3)----1-------7-------4-----------------------3-------|
g---------------2---------------8-------4-----------------------2-------|
d-------2-------2-------2-------9-------4---------------4---------------|
a-------2---------------3-------9-------2---------------4---------------|
e-------------------------------7---------------2-------2-------2-------|
Chords for the 2nd and 3rd Verses!
*** Note the hammer-ons... He does repeatedly for the Em and Am chords in both the
verse and chorus (mostly in the verse). You can figure out the strumming on your own
- experiment...
Em Am or Am or Am
e------------------------------------------|
b---------------0h1-----1-------0h1--------|
g---------------2-------0h2-----0h2--------|
d-------0h2-----2-------0h2-----0h2--------|
a-------0h2--------------------------------|
e------------------------------------------|
Song:
VERSE 1 (Plucking, finger-picking, and light strumming)
Em
It takes a crane to build a crane
Am
It takes two floors to make a story
C
It takes an egg to make a hen
C
It takes a hen to make an egg
G Bm
There is no end to what I'm saying
Em
It takes a thought to make a word
Am
And it takes some word to make an action
C
And It takes some work to make it work
C
It takes some good to make it hurt
G Bm
It takes some bad for satisfaction
CHORUS (Plucking, finger-picking, and light strumming)
Em Am
La la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional transition into the Em chord)
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D
Al la la la la
VERSE 2 (Strumming)
Em
It takes a night to make it dawn
Am
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
C
It takes some old to make you young
C
It takes some cold to know the sun
G B
It takes the one to have the other
(-----This is where the drums would come in------)
Em
And It takes no time to fall in love
Am
But it takes you years to know what love is
C
And It takes some fears to make you trust
C
It takes those tears to make it rust
G B
It takes the dust to have it polished
CHORUS 2
Em Am
Ha la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional)
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D Em (keep playing this chord until next verse)
Ah la la la la la la life is so...
BRIDGE
Just keep playing variations of that Em chord (that you just ended on - from Chorus 2)
VERSE 3
Em
It takes some silence to make sound
Am
And It takes a loss before you found it
C
And It takes a road to go nowhere
C
It takes a toll to make you care
G B
It takes a hole to make a mountain
CHORUS 3
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional)
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional)
Ah la la la la la la love is meaningful
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D D
Ah la la la la la la...
Em
It is so wonderful
Em (like the Bridge - just keep playing this chord until the end)
It is so meaningful
Em
It is so wonderful
Em
It is meaningful
Em
It is wonderful
Em
And meaningful
Em
It goes full circle
Em
Wonderful
Em
Meaningful
Em
Full Circle
Em
Wonderful
...
Let me know if you have any comments, questions, or requests! =)
seanbtyson@hotmail.com
p.s. - I hope the format is okay (Stupid ASCII stuff).
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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AJM Average |
#1 by AJM at Sep 27, 2007 at 8:44 PM EST |
| This is such a beautiful song. I believe this is my favorite from Mraz. I'm very surprised it's recieved so few comments. O_o | |
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Chris Wanna Be |
#2 by Chris at Sep 28, 2007 at 6:00 PM EST |
| I love how the song progresses ... its starts off haha, cool and builds up momentum, singin faster, adding instruments, pronouncing deeper... and the lyrics go right with the progression, just like in life 1 | |
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Frank Wanna Be |
#3 by Frank at Sep 29, 2007 at 4:16 AM EST |
| about love, of course it gives you the same kind of high that love does, pretty awesome. a good first track for his cd :) | |
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Brian Average |
#4 by Brian Dempsey at Sep 29, 2007 at 4:56 AM EST |
| This song just shows how simple and wonderful love is. It takes a night to a make a dawn...duh like thats how simple love can be. And it takes no time to fall in love but once youre in love it can take you a lot of time for you to figure out everything that goes along with it it takes no time to fall in love but it takes you years to know what love is it takes some tears to make you trust it takes some years to make it rust it takes some dust to make it polished (That part kind of shows that you have to take the bad things or the things that dont really work between the 2 people and make it work) | |
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Austin Wanna Be |
#5 by Austin Skitowski at Sep 29, 2007 at 5:50 PM EST |
| The song is not generalized towards love only. Life in general is a gift and the things around us work so magically and mysteriously that gives us curiousity. He contrasts negative with positive, action with reaction, to show that in everything bad that happens to us there will always be a sort of message being sent to tell us something, good or bad. This song is so beautiful. | |
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DrUnk Idi0t #1 Average |
#6 by DrUnk Idi0t #1 at Sep 30, 2007 at 5:45 AM EST |
| "Life is wonderful" doesn't the title say it all? We can't have good without bad, happy without sad that sorta thing. That Life is wonderful because of the diversity of things in it and that you wouldn't appreciate the good if you didn't have the bad every now and again. | |
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foster Average |
#7 by foster meng at Sep 30, 2007 at 5:52 AM EST |
| this song is really cool and interesting. just makes you think about the little things and he says it in a cool way | |
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kim Average |
#8 by kim vb at Sep 30, 2007 at 8:24 AM EST |
| This song pretty much means just what it says: Life Is Wonderful. The ups, the downs, the good the bad, it all works to make beautiful life. "it takes some cold to know the sun " "it takes some fears to make you trust" "it takes some tears to make it rust" Those have to be my 3 favorite lines. | |
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callum Wanna Be |
#9 by callum cook at Sep 30, 2007 at 9:34 AM EST |
| this song is really cool and interesting. just makes you think about the little things and he says it in a cool way | |
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curt Average |
#10 by curt at Sep 30, 2007 at 12:26 PM EST |
| I think this song is about loving the simple things in life. Also i noticed that the song time is 4minutes and 20seconds exactly. At 4:20 life is pretty wonderful! | |
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Teenage Riot Average |
#11 by Teenage Riot PokerBAss at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:13 PM EST |
| It's Jason reflecting on how simple life is after all. It kind of seems to me very appropriate for him to put it on his second album cause he has accomplished a lot and now he's just telling us all "But you know what, life is wonderful!" I like. | |
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Christina Average |
#12 by Christina Anderson at Oct 3, 2007 at 1:55 PM EST |
| his voice is amazing, and the lyrics are so deep, it sounds almost cliche, but really, i love it, i listen to it all the time, i agree with triste, i can't believe so little comments | |
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Colin Average |
#13 by Colin D at Oct 3, 2007 at 1:59 PM EST |
| I love his music. | |
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no more mohawk Average |
#14 by no more mohawk :( at Oct 4, 2007 at 10:07 AM EST |
| i absolutly love this song. i think jason is just telling everyone that no matter how hard things are you have to go through the hard things to get to the wonderful things. i found some lyric mistakes "it takes some tears to make you trust it takes some years to make it rust" i should be "it takes some fears to make you trust" "it takes some tears to make it rust" i think. i was just listening to the song and thats what it sounded like to me. | |
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.......?????? Wanna Be |
#15 by .......?????? at Oct 5, 2007 at 8:39 PM EST |
| I totally agree with triste on how good of a song it is and yet so few comments. I think that jason is trying to explain that everything works in circles. Sometimes there are bad parts in the circle but since its okay because its going to become good sooner or later. He's admiring the way life works. | |
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meh Rhythm Player |
#16 by meh at Oct 6, 2007 at 10:25 PM EST |
| yeah i agree with those errors. but i agree with everyone on the meaning. it takes a little bit of bad to get a little bit of good. but in the end it's all worth it. | |
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