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| He Went to Paris
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by Jimmy Buffett
He went to Paris looking for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressiveyoung and aggressive
Saving the world on his own
But the warm summer breezesthose french wines and cheeses
Put his ambitions at bay
The summers and winters scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away
So he went to Englandplayed the piano
And married an actress named Kim
They had a fine lifeshe was a good wife
And bore him a young son named Jim
And all of the answers to all of the questions
He locked in his attic one day
He liked the quietclean country living
And twenty more years slipped away
But the war took his babythe bombs killed his lady
And left him with only one eye
His body was batteredhis whole world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry
The tears were a fallingand he was recalling
The answers he never found
So he hopped on a freightersailed across the ocean
And left England without a sound
Now he lives in the islandsfishing the pylons
And drinks his green label each day
Writing his memoirslosing his hearing
And he don't care what most people say
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say
Jimmy some of it's magic and some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way
And he went to to Parislooking for answers
To questions that bothered him so
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