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Version 1 Version 2He Went to Paris E|---------------------||-----------------------||----------------------| B|---------------------||-----------------------||----------------------| G|---------------------||.---------------------.||----------------------| D|------------0--------||.--------------0---0--.||----------------------| A|---4--0--------------||---4--0-----4----------||--4--0-----4----0-----| E|---------0-----------||---------0-------------||--------0-------------| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & [Verse 1] A D A He went to Paris, lookin' for answers, to questions that bothered him so. A D E7 He was impressive, young and agressive, savin' the world on his own. D A D E7 But the warm summer breezes, the French wine and cheeses, put his ambition at bay. A The summers and winters, scattered like splinters, D E7 A And four or five years slipped away. [Verse 2] A D A Then he went to England, played the piano, and married an actress named Kim. A D E7 They had a fine life, she was a good wife, and bore him a young son named Jim. D A D E7 And all of the answers, and all of the questions, he locked in his attic one day, A 'Cause he liked the quiet, clean country livin', D E7 A And twenty more years slipped away. [Verse 3] A Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady, D A And left him with only one eye. A His body was battered, his whole world was shattered, D E7 And all he could do was just cry. D A D E7 While the tears were a-fallin', he was recallin', answers he never found. A So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean, D E7 A And left England without a sound. [Verse 4] A Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's, D A And drinks his Green Label each day. A Writin' his memoirs, losin' his hearin', D E7 But he don't care what most people say. D A Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion, D E7 If he likes you, he'll smile then he'll say, A "Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, D E7 A But I had a good life all the way." A D E7 A And he went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions that bothered him so.