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 Tahiti      I'd go the whole wide world   I'd go the whole wide world   Just to find her      Or maybe she's in the Bahamas   Where the Carribean sea is blue   Weeping in a tropical moonlit night   Because nobody's told her 'bout 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   Find out where they hide her      Why am I hanging around in the rain out here   Trying to pick up a girl   Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears   When there're girls all over the world      Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere   Underneath the tropical sun   Pining away in a heatwave there   Hoping that I won't be long      I should be lying on that sun-soaked beach with her   Caressing her warm brown skin   And then in a 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   Find out where they hide her