Verse 1AEADAEA
I will live my life as a lobsterman's wife on an island in the blue bay.
AEA7D
He will take care of me, he will smell like the sea,
AEA
And close to my heart he'll always stay.
AEADA
I will bear three girls all with strawberry curls, little Ella and
EA
Nelly and Faye.
AEA7D
While I'm combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare
AEA
On our island in the blue bay.
ChorusEE7DA
Far away far away, I want to go far away.
EA
To a new life on a new shore line.
EE7DA
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
ED (hold..)
To another island, in another life.
AVerse 2AEADAEA
There's a boy next to me and he never will be anything but a boy at the bar.
EA7D
And I think he's the tops, he's where everything stops.
AEA
How I love to love him from afar.
AEADA
When he walks right pass me then I finally see on this bar stool I can't
E
stay.
AEA7D
So I'm taking my frown to a far distant town
AEA
On an island in the blue bay.
ChorusEE7DA
Far away far away, I want to go far away.
EA
To a new life on a new shore line.
EE7DA
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
ED (hold..)
To another island, in another life.
Bridge
(the Bridge is various As and Es... play to your liking as long as you end on A)
I want to go far away.
Away away, I want to go far away, away, away
I want to go far away, far away.
OutroEE7DA
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
EDA
To another life, to another life.
E
To another shore line
D (hold..) A (hold..)
In another life.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.