The Proclaimers – Whole Wide World (Guitar)

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For the Intro / Verse 1 strumming pattern, slightly mute the strums on beat 1 and the & of 2, so that the strums don't ring for a full quarter note. E A E A
E	           A  	 E               A
When I was a young boy, mama she said to me,

	   E		      A
"There's only one girl in the world for you,

	E		    A
But she probably lives in Tahiti."

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

					A       E     A
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.

     E			A		 E		  A
Or maybe she's in the Bahamas, where the Caribbean Sea is blue,

E		    A		    E                        A
Weeping away in a tropical moonlight night, because nobody's told about you.

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

					A
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world,

						      A
I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her. 

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

					A
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.
(play chords twice)
         E                     A              E                    A
Why I’m hanging around in the rain out here, trying to pick up a girl

        E                               A                       
Why are my eye’s filling up with these lonely tears, when there's

E                     A
girl’s all over the world.

          E                             A       E   
Well is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere, underneath the tropical 

A     E                         A        E                      A  
sun? Pining away in a heat wave there, hoping that I won’t be long?

          E                             A             E   
I should be lying on that sun soaked beach with her caressing her soft

A     E                         A        E                      A  
brown skin And then in a year or maybe not quiet we'll be sharing 

E                 A
the same  next of kin

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

				      A
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

						      A
I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her.

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

				      A
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world, 

						      A
I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her.

	     E
I'd go the whole wide world (Repeated to fade)