Wild World — reimagined in D G C G C D

Originally by Cat Stevens (Standard tuning) Tuning used here D G C G C D (Jimmy Page's "The Rain Song" tuning) Key idea a 1970 folk-pop classic, refretted in a Zeppelin original

This isn't how Wild World was originally played. Cat Stevens recorded it in Standard tuning — this page takes the real, widely-documented chord progression and refrets it in Jimmy Page's own D G C G C D tuning, pairing two guitarists from the same early-70s singer-songwriter era.

The song sits in C major but opens on its relative minor (Am), giving the verse a wistful lean before it resolves down through the full descending cycle — D7–G–C–F–Dm–E7 — a classic circle-of-fifths walk that's part of why the progression feels so inevitable.

Am→ D7→ G→ C→ F→ Dm→ E7

This is the core intro/verse progression as commonly transcribed — open it below to hear each real shape in D G C G C D.

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Every chord verified against the app's own voicing engine in the real D G C G C D tuning.