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/ Jimmy Buffett / A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973) / He Went to Paris guitar tab

From: bam@wam.umd.edu (Brian Michalowski)

Note:  This is taken from the sheet music arranged for piano.  Some of the
       tab may need to be played an octave higher.  You may need to capo at
       at the first fret for some of these songs, too.

                                He Went to Paris


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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 &


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 cheese put his ambition at bay
    A
The summers and winters scattered like splinters
       D              E7      A
And four or five years slipped away.

Additional lyrics:

Then he went to England, played the piano, and married an Actress named Kim.
They had a fine life, she was a good wife and bore him a young son named Jim.
And all of the answers and all of the questions he locked in his attic one day
'Cause he liked the quiet clean county livin'
And twenty more years slipped away.

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady, and left him with
  only one eye.
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered, all he could do was
  just cry.
While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin' answers he never found.
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound.

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's and drinks his Green Label
  each day.
Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin', but he don't care what people say.
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion, if he likes you he'll smile,
  then he'll say
"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic,
But I had a good life all the way."

And he went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions that bothered him so.


Jimmy Buffett albums
2004 License to Chill
2002 Far Side of the World
1996 Banana Wind
1995 Barometer Soup
1994 Fruitcakes
1986 Floridays
1985 Last Mango in Paris
1984 Riddles in the Sand
1983 One Particular Harbour
1981 Coconut Telegraph
1979 Volcano
1978 Son of a Son of a Sailor
1977 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
1976 Havana Daydreamin'
1976 High Cumberland Jubilee
1974 A-1-A
1974 Living and Dying in 3/4 Time
1973 A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
1970 Down to Earth
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean tabs
01The Great Filling Station Holdup tabbass tab
02Railroad Lady tabbass tab
03He Went to Paris tabbass tab
04Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit tabbass tab
05Cuban Crime of Passion tabbass tab
06Why Don't We Get Drunk tabbass tab
07Peanut Butter Conspiracy tabbass tab
09I Have Found Me a Home tabbass tab
10My Lovely Lady tabbass tab
11Death of an Unpopular Poet tabbass tab

 

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