Proclaimers, The - Whole Wide World Lyrics

I like it just way it is. No need to change the speed

great song & lyrics!

Winners listen to this at 1.25 speed.

Stranger Than Fiction anyone?

Race mixing is an abomination. This group is obviiously corrupted by globalist music industry to promote erasure of Europeans. DISGUSTING. will never ever buy from this group or their music company again

I'd just like to point out that Charlie 's wink at 3:21 was specifically for me ... I bloody wish ...😍

nice, but original kicks butt and this off the stage

Please don't go the whole wide world -- please stay in Scotland and make Scots with beautiful Scottish women -- the true minority of the world these days -- and help those lovely Tahitians out by allowing them to find beautiful Tahitian men.

Good shit dudes

Good song.

This was so cool!

No sorry- Wreckless Eric every time

1.25 speed👌🏽

Just found this tune! Great pop music writers! with some very catchy tunes!

Dutch: TAHITI?!

I'm glad this video had a few closeups of Charlie. It is always Craig in front and Charlie always seems to be hiding behind him.

I guess now that they're older they are now willing to go much more than 1000 miles for love 😋...

Needs more balls

I always thought this was a cage the elephant song

...even Will Ferrell's version holds more passion

naaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUFL8WSxTgY

Proclaimers foda demais.

Awsome... Love that I'm not the only hopeless romantic out there 😂❤️🙏

one of them should go solo

I would Walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more

Spot on. Cheers!

The harmony vocal here is a thing of beauty.

Just plain sounds better with a Scottish accent.

Nobody does it better

God only knows where my One is. she could be half way across the world. or maybe she'll show up in my life someday. I pray everyday to God to meet her. I hope I meet the girl that I feel nervous around, I can't speak, and she's all I think about. I see her face everywhere and in everything. I want to be that in love.

Their accents are adorable.

just doesn't have the sense of urgency of the original

Are they saying "I got the whole wide world just to fight her"? Cause that's what it sounds like to me

Find her.

This is the shittiest rendition of this song. Lord save us all

Their tempo matches that of the Wreckless Eric original. Cage the Elephant's recent cover speeds it up. The Proclaimers's vocal harmonies here are top notch.

i had 3 muses already, thanks girls

This is by far the worst Cover on the Whole Wide World! Sucks big time

Well done.

good remake. the monkees also have a good version too

great song...terrible cover...for shame

Why do they always have to chase the women they love? :)

"I'd go the whole way-d wa-rald.." I love it!

best ever duet - love you guys

Whole wide world, 500 miles, letter from America..Someone in The Proclaimers was in a long distance relationship

Pal letter from America was about the highland clearances

This iant their song this is a copy of a 1978 wreckless eric song check it out dudes voice is nuts

I feel that the Proclaimers are one of Scotland's many national treasures

I have always thought that the use of profanity is a sure sign of both a limited vocabulary and intellect.

reliance on profanity to express ones opinion is often a sign of a limited vocabulary, which in turn is often a sign of a limited intellect

@john green - Well said

Aye definitely

That tam ermine did you sing my gree blue tambourine

There fricken chicken 80

There sooooo old

Thank you gentlemen that is well tidy.

Oh , cool !!!!!

nice atempt to cover this song but over produced, this song belongs to wreckless eric and wreckless eric alone

And Afie

I appreciate the purist point of view but must differ with you in your use of the word 'attempt'. The boys didd a great job with this.

Still better than Cage the Elephant's version.

Love this song.....I can't stop singing it......

Well played you buncha Haggis chasin Whisky swillin twins!

TTTTTOOOO SSSSSSLLLLLLLLOOOOOWWWWWWW

but nice :D

Was that zooey deschanel?

I love this song but their tempo is just to slow. I find changing the speed to 1.25 makes it absolutely pefect

check out Cage The Elephant's cover of it in their Unpeeled album. :) their version is faster and I love it.

Good at 1.25 but not as haunting.  Liked the harmonies better at normal speed. Just my opinion.

@John Rush Check out Die Toten Hosen ;)

Thanks! Much better that way

if you want to fight then we will fight

I don't quite understand what they were going for here, but whatever it is, it doesn't work. Um, nice try?

Always love me some Proclaimers, and this song was perfect for them

I guess they'll be walking then !!!

daveyharsh 500 miles.

Love that they covered this, made my day.....!

I wish somebody would love me so! XD

The Rider me too.

JMōR •dreads amen.

Hope you've found someone now!

Love it, Proclaimers redefine this track their style.

Also done by The Monkees,on their "POOL IT!" Lp as well!

Which was also a cover

Love the 'claimers but this shouldn't have got more views than the original by Wreckless Eric.

Nice rendition.  True to the spirit of the song.  First heard it when Will Ferrell sang it in a movie.  A great song always lasts forever.

Lyegk My favorite movie

They couldn't find any brown-skinned girls to be in the video??

well it's not an American rap video so please excuse the lack of "bitches 'n hoes"

@then33k4 Cool meme, man -> "bitches 'n hoes": Them always be black

There ain't many if thase in tha Isles

Love this song so much!

no thanks

great cover......sure Eric would approve

Nice job on this Reckless Eric cover lads!

I enjoyed this!

nope, just nope... no one does it like wreckless eric, so stop trying

I don't know why there's so many negative comments on this. Yes it's not the same as their previous work but it shows the diversity that they have. There was a comment saying that someone didn't like their pronounciation of "wide" and "fine" but come on, everyone pronounces things differently as we all have different idiolects and diolects that make us who we are. I really like this song and think that people who are picking up on stuff like this should be less shallow minded and learn to enjoy music for what it is

Sorry That was a reply to you, think I miss understood what you were saying before

I personally like hearing people's accents when they sing. It is boring to have everyone sound American. But I am particularly fond of a Scottish brogue anyway. 

@Matthew Boutflower That's fine just a simple misunderstanding 

@Greeta Ahart So do i that's why i love the Proclaimers 

Matthew Boutflower this is a great Proclaimers song.

Their accents and pronunciation of certain words dont fit this song,a big thumbs down. Awesome song just dont care for this version.

After 500 miles I was like, "Why don't these guys have a career anymore?!?!" I have my answer :(

I have some of their songs from their Born Innocent album on my channel, much better than this. But this isn't that bad of a song, i like it better than the original.

@En Emerson I think the pace of this song was just off-putting, but I'll check out some of their other stuff before I am too quick to judge, I suppose :)

This is not the best song for representing these guys. Listen to 'Sunshine on Leith', 'Letter from America' or even 'I'm on my way'

This is a beautiful song, not mention a very good cover. If you hear the original and then this, well, it shows creativity. I suppose you aren't heart broken enough with someone you love avoiding you for years, even though they live down the road, to enjoy this song.

Awesome sauce !

Fuckin' awful !

Why?
(sorry for being late)

your dad just to disagree bc literally everyone that loves them

Existe alguien que una vez oyó esta canción en mi presencia, ese alguien estaba marcado por su preciosa aura, su tierno mirar, pero su fiel indiferencia a mi
es poesía hecha carne, mi profesora de literatura
al volver a oír esta canción todas las partículas de mi ser me gritan en encontrarla nueva mente para verla de nuevo suspirar, pero también pensar el hecho de que no sea mía.
sencillamente despliego esto ante cualquiera por que no he encontrado mejor manera de des ahogarlo.

me three! ^_^ she is everything i could of ask for, but more.

Very witty! LOL

me too : )

What an absolute stinking pile of horseshit this song is.

donza01 somebody’s angrt

Always Great ..two men and one guitar..best live group

i found her!

It's the best song on the Stranger Than Fiction

it should be faster

I like both. The Proclaimers are great singers, and part of it I love is the accent.

Liked it the moment I heard it on Stranger than Fiction!!

Actually, it was written in 1974.

They should have sailed to Tahiti with Captain Bligh.

good cover but the original was better

Hard to believe this song was written in 1977. So fresh, and timeless. I'm thinking Wreckless Eric wrote the best single of the punk era, and he was largely ignored. This Proclaimers version is a lot of fun too. This song will always be a favourite for me.

Good cover but a great tribute to the one and only and vastly under rated Wreckless Eric.

Well of course not; it's not trying to be, so stop yer haverin' and haud yer wheesht!

Splendid.

Wreckless Eric any day,
sorry: ANYDAY!