#-----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# #This OLGA file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation # #of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or # #research. Remember to view this file in Courier, or other monospaced font. # #See http://www.olga.net/faq/ for more information. # #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# Subject: a/andersen_eric/trouble_in_paris.crd Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:10:05 GMT From: pgfn95a@prodigy.com Eric Andersen Trouble In Paris by Eric Andersen D D/C# There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge Bm D And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth G Em An off duty cop sits with his back to the door A And somebody just took a piss in the sink D D/C# The cop's drinkin Pernod thinks he's drinkin absinthe Bm D With the girl who had loved him on the Rue St. Denis G Em While somebody's slinkin smokin under a light A Bm And there's trouble in Paris tonight D D/C# Now Simone pulls the collar up tight to her throat Bm D While the riverboats knock under the old Pont Neuf G Em A rat makes a run for his hole in the wall A She stops by a street light and lights a straight cigarette D D/C# A Gitane on his knees starts to howl like a dog Bm D She closes her purse and tries to peer through the fog G Em Nothin seems wrong but somethin ain't right A Bm And there's trouble in Paris tonight D D/C# Now the man cleanin his teeth well he ain't satisfied Bm D He's hungry for somethin that he just can't define G Em The one by the sink is now sweeping the floor A And the cop he ran short of dreams a long time before D D/C# While under a street lamp there's trouble it seems Bm D First there's a struggle and then there's a scream G Em She didn't know what hit her when he asked for a light A Bm And there's trouble in Paris tonight D D/C# Simone had been a town girl not far north of Nantes Bm D Who did it for money once then she just couldn't stop G Em Had a fight with her mother another runaway teen A Who had hotel love with a cop on the Rue St. Denis D D/C# And a boy once abandoned by a cop and a whore Bm D Has a knife in his hands he was a child of the war G Em It was either Simone or cut out the lights A Bm And there's trouble in Paris tonight D D/C# There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge Bm D And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth G Em An off duty cop sits with his back to the door A And somebody just took a piss in the sink D D/C# While somebody's standin out cold in the rain Bm D Could be all warm inside drinking champagne G Em Being thin as a shadow smokin under a light A Bm And there's trouble in Paris tonight G Em Bein thin as a shadow smokin under a light A Bm And there's trouble in Paris tonight From The Ghost Upon The Road CD