{"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":1503852,"song":"He Went To Paris","artist":"Jimmy Buffett","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1503852-he-went-to-paris-chords-by-jimmy-buffett/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1503852?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":131,"content":"Capo 2\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions that bothered him so.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nHe was impressive, young and aggressive, savin' the world on his own.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch] \r\nBut the warm summer breezes, the French wine and cheeses put his ambition at bay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe summers and winters scattered like splinters[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd four or five years slipped away.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                              [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen he went to England, played the piano, and married an Actress named Kim.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                             [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]D7[/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]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd all of the answers and all of the questions he locked in his attic one day[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause he liked the quiet clean county livin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd twenty more years slipped away.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                          [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady, and left him with only one eye.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nHis body was battered, his whole world was shattered, and all he could do was just cry.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nWhile the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin' answers he never found.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D7[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd left England without a sound.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                   [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's and drinks his Green Label each day.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                               [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nWriting his memoirs, losin' his hearin', but he don't care what people say.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]D7[/ch]     \r\nThrough eighty-six years of perpetual motion, if he likes you he'll smile, and he'll say[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D7[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I had a good life all the way.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions that bothered him so.[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo 2","chords":["G","C","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}