{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":62765,"song":"He Went To Paris","artist":"Jimmy Buffett","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11542315-he-went-to-paris-chords-by-jimmy-buffett/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/62765?type=chord","rating":4.94422,"votes":245,"content":"[tab]                                He Went to Paris\r\nE|---------------------||-----------------------||----------------------|\r\nB|---------------------||-----------------------||----------------------|\r\nG|---------------------||.---------------------.||----------------------|\r\nD|------------0--------||.--------------0---0--.||----------------------|\r\nA|---4--0--------------||---4--0-----4----------||--4--0-----4----0-----|\r\nE|---------0-----------||---------0-------------||--------0-------------|\r\n     1  &  2  & 3 & 4 &     1  &  2  &  3 & 4 &     1  &  2  &  3 & 4 &[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe went to Paris, lookin' for answers, to questions that bothered him so.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nHe was impressive, young and agressive, savin' the world on his own.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nBut the warm summer breezes, the French wine and cheeses, put his ambition at bay.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe summers and winters, scattered like splinters,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd four or five years slipped away.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                                 [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen he went to England, played the piano, and married an actress named Kim.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                              [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nThey had a fine life, she was a good wife, and bore him a young son named Jim.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAnd all of the answers, and all of the questions, he locked in his attic one day,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\n'Cause he liked the quiet, clean country livin',[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd twenty more years slipped away.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd left him with only one eye.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nHis body was battered, his whole world was shattered,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAnd all he could do was just cry.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nWhile the tears were a-fallin', he was recallin', answers he never found.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd left England without a sound.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nNow he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd drinks his Green Label each day.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nWritin' his memoirs, losin' his hearin',[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nBut he don't care what most people say.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThrough eighty-six years of perpetual motion,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nIf he likes you, he'll smile then he'll say,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut I had a good life all the way.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                           [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions that bothered him so.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]","chords":["E","B","G","D","A","E7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]}}}