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esta canção foi gravada em 1977, naquela transição entre o punk e a new-wave. e foi o único sucesso de wreckless eric, de quem não se voltou a ouvir falar, talvez por ainda andar à procura da tal rapariga.
mas trinta anos depois é a única canção que harold crick sabe tocar na guitarra, no fabuloso “stranger than fiction”, como que a dizer-nos que mesmo um fiscal das finanças merece ser feliz.

a) eric goulden

b) will ferrell

When I was a young boy

My mama said to me

There's only one girl in the world for you

But 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 Caribean 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