Intro: just play A for 4 measures
Verse 1:
       C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)       Am (x02210@1)        FI (133211@1)will live my life as a lobsterman's wife
      C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)  Gon (320003@1)an island in the blue bay.
        C (x32010@1)          GHe (320003@1)will take care of me,
        Am (x02210@1)          Fhe (133211@1)will smell like the sea,
    C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)                CAnd (x32010@1)close to my heart he'll always stay.

C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)           Am (x02210@1)       FI (133211@1)will bear three girls all with strawberry curls,
       C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)   Glittle (320003@1)Ella and Nelly and Faye.
          C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)          Am (x02210@1)          FWhile (133211@1)I'm combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare
       C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)         COn (x32010@1)our island in the blue bay.

Chorus:
     G (320003@1)                    Am (x02210@1) CFar (x32010@1)away far away, I want to go far away.
     C (x32010@1)               GTo (320003@1)a new life on a new shore line.
          G (320003@1)                   Am (x02210@1)      CWhere (x32010@1)the water is blue and the people are new.
     G (320003@1)          F (133211@1)  Fm (133111@1)            CTo (x32010@1)another island, in another life.
Verse 2:
          C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)        Am (x02210@1)      FThere's (133211@1)a boy next to me and he never will be
   C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)  Ganything (320003@1)but a boy at the bar.
      C (x32010@1)            GAnd (320003@1)I think he's the tops,
           Am (x02210@1)      Fhe's (133211@1)where everything stops.
      C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)  GHow (320003@1)I love to love him from afar.

C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)       Am (x02210@1)   FWhen (133211@1)he walks right pass me then I finally see
       C (x32010@1)                Gon (320003@1)this bar stool I can't stay.
       C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)        Am (x02210@1)       FSo (133211@1)I'm taking my frown to a far distant town
      C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)         COn (x32010@1)an island in the blue bay.
(Chorus)
Bridge:
CI (x32010@1)want to go far away.
Am (x02210@1)                             GAway (320003@1)away, I want to go far away, away, away
                 CI (x32010@1)want to go far away, far away.
Interlude: E, F#m, A, E, F#m (chords from 1st half of chorus)

G (320003@1)                   Am (x02210@1)      CWhere (x32010@1)the water is blue and the people are new.
        G (320003@1)                   Am (x02210@1)  CTo (x32010@1)another life, to another life.
        GTo (320003@1)another shore line
F (133211@1) Fm (133111@1)                 (End on C)
In another life.