Far Away Uke tab by Ingrid Michaelson

5 Chords used in the song: A, E, F#m, D, Dm

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Album: 
Year:  2007
Difficulty: 
4.9
(Intermediate)
Key: A, F#mChords
Verse 1:
A chordA E chordE F#m chordF#m D chordD
I will live my life as a lobster-man's wife
A chordA E chordE A chordA E chordE
on an island in the blue bay.
A chordA E chordE
He will take care of me,
F#m chordF#m D chordD
he will smell like the sea,
A chordA E chordE A chordA
And close to my heart he'll always stay.

A chordA E chordE F#m chordF#m D chordD
I will bear three girls all with strawberry curls,
A chordA E chordE A chordA E chordE
little Ella and Nelly and Faye.
A chordA E chordE F#m chordF#m D chordD
While I'm combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare
A chordA E chordE A chordA
On our island in the blue bay.

Chorus:
E chordE F#m chordF#m A chordA
Far away far away, I want to go far away.
A chordA E chordE
To a new life on a new shore line.
E chordE F#m chordF#m A chordA
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
E chordE D chordD Dm chordDm A chordA
To another island, in another life.
Verse 2:
A chordA E chordE F#m chordF#m D chordD
There's a boy next to me and he never will be
A chordA E chordE A chordA E chordE
anything but a boy at the bar.
A chordA E chordE
And I think he's the tops,
F#m chordF#m D chordD
he's where everything stops.
A chordA E chordE A chordA E chordE
How I love to love him from afar.

D chordD A chordA F#m chordF#m D chordD
When he walks right pass me then I finally see
A chordA D chordD E chordE
on this bar stool I can't stay.
A chordA E chordE F#m chordF#m D chordD
So I'm taking my frown to a far distant town
A chordA E chordE A chordA
On an island in the blue bay.

(Chorus)

Bridge:
A chordA
I want to go far away.
F#m chordF#m E chordE
Away away, I want to go far away, away, away
A chordA
I want to go far away, far away.

Interlude:E chordE, F#m chordF#m, A chordA, E chordE, F#m chordF#m

E chordE F#m chordF#m A chordA
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
E chordE F#m chordF#m A chordA
To another life, to another life.
E chordE
To another shore line
D chordD Dm chordDm A chordA
In another life.

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