Whole Wide World

When I was a young boy

My mama said to me:

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

And she probably lives in Tahit"

I'd go the whole wide world

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

Or maybe she lives in the Bahamas

Where the Caribbean Sea is blue

Weeping in a tropical, moonlit night

Because nobody's talking about you

I'd go the whole wide world

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

I'd go the whole wide world

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

I'd go the whole wide world

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

Why am I hangin' around in the rain out here

Tryin' to pick up a girl?

Why are my eyes fillin' up with these lonely tears

When there's girls all over the world?

Or is she lyin' on a tropical beach somewhere

Underneath the tropical sun?

Hiding away in a heat-wave there

Hoping that I won't be long

I should be lyin' on that sun-lit beach with her

Caressing her warm, brown skin

And at the end of the year, or maybe not quite

We'll be sharing the same next-of-kin

I'd go the whole wide world

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

I'd go the whole wide world

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

I'd go the whole wide world

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

I'd go the whole wide world

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