C/G F [Verse] C/G F C/G F When I was a young boy, my mama said to me C/G F There's only one girl in the world for you C/G F And she's probably in Tahiti C/G F Or maybe she's in the Bahamas C/G F Where the Caribbean Sea is blue C/G F We've been in a tropical moonlight night C/G F Cause nobody taught her 'bout you [Chorus] C/G I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the whole wide world F Just to find her C/G I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the whole wide world F To find out where they hide her [Verse] C/G F Why am I hanging around in the rain out here C/G F Trying to pick up a girl C/G F Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears C/G F When there's girls all over the world C/G F Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere C/G F Underneath the tropical sun C/G F Pining away in a heat wave there C/G F Hoping that I won't be long C/G F I should be lying on that sun soaked beach with her C/G F Caressing her warm brown skin C/G F Then in a year or maybe not quite C/G F We'll be sharing the same next of kin [Chorus] C/G I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the whole wide world F Just to find her C/G I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the whole wide world F To find out where they hide her C/G I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the whole wide world F Just to find her C/G I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the whole wide world F To find out where they hide her