The Proclaimers – Whole Wide World (Ukulele)

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When I was a young boy, mama she said to me,

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

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But she probably lives in Tahiti."

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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

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

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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I'd go the whole wide world,

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

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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Why I’m hanging around in the rain out here, trying to pick up a girl

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

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girl’s all over the world.

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

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

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

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

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the same  next of kin

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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I'd go the whole wide world, 

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

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