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I will (A)live my (E)life
as a (A7)lob ster man’s (D)wife
on an (A)is land
(E)in the blue (A)bay.
He will (A)take
care of (E)me;
he will (A7)smell like the (D)sea
and (A)close
to my heart he’ll al ways
stay.
I will (A)bear
three (E)girls,
all with
straw ber ry (D)curls:
Lit tle El la and
Nel ly and
Faye.
While I’m (A)comb ing their (E)hair,
I will (A7)catch his warm
stare on our
is land
(E)in the blue
bay.
Far a way,
far a way,
I want to (D)go
far a (A)way
to a (E)new life
on a new shore
line
where
the wa
ter is blue
and the (D)peo ple are (A)new;
to an (E)oth er
is land,
in an oth er life.
There’s a boy
next to (E)me, and he (A7)nev er will (D)be an y (A)thing but a boy
at the (A)bar.
And I (A)think he’s the (E)tops; he’s where (A7)ev ’ry thing (D)stops.
How I (A)love
to love him
from a (A)far!
When he walks right past (E)me, then I (A7)fi nal ly (D)see on this bar
stool I
can’t stay.
So I’m (A)tak ing my frown
to a (A7)far dis tant town
on an (A)is land
(E)in the blue
bay.
Far
a way,
I want to
go far a way,
(F#)a way,
a way.
I,
I want to go far a way, a way,
a way.
I want to go far
a (A)way,
a way,
a way
where the wa
ter is blue
and the (D)peo ple are (A)new;
to an (E)oth er life, to an oth
er (A)life,
to an (E)oth er shore line
in an oth er life.
This page shows “Far Away” by Ingrid Michaelson in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of A at 100 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.