Intro: just play A for 4 measures
Verse 1:
C G Am F
I will live my life as a lobsterman's wife
C G C G
on an island in the blue bay.
C G
He will take care of me,
Am F
he will smell like the sea,
C G C
And close to my heart he'll always stay.
C G Am F
I will bear three girls all with strawberry curls,
C G C G
little Ella and Nelly and Faye.
C G Am F
While I'm combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare
C G C
On our island in the blue bay.
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Chorus:
G Am C
Far away far away, I want to go far away.
C G
To a new life on a new shore line.
G Am C
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
G F Fm C
To another island, in another life.
Verse 2:
C G Am F
There's a boy next to me and he never will be
C G C G
anything but a boy at the bar.
C G
And I think he's the tops,
Am F
he's where everything stops.
C G C G
How I love to love him from afar.
C G Am F
When he walks right pass me then I finally see
C G
on this bar stool I can't stay.
C G Am F
So I'm taking my frown to a far distant town
C G C
On an island in the blue bay.
(Chorus)
Bridge:
C
I want to go far away.
Am G
Away away, I want to go far away, away, away
C
I want to go far away, far away.
Interlude: E, F#m, A, E, F#m (chords from 1st half of chorus)
G Am C
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
G Am C
To another life, to another life.
G
To another shore line
F Fm (End on C)
In another life.
