He Went To Paris Lyrics - Songs You Know By Heart - Jimmy Buffett

He went to Paris 

looking for answers 

to questions that bothered him so 

He was impressive, 

young and aggressive, 

saving the world on his own 

Warm summer breezes 

and french wines and cheeses 

put his ambitions at bay 

summers and winters 

scattered like splinters 

and four or five years slipped away 

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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 

to all of the questions 

locked in his attic one day 

he liked the quiet 

clean country living 

and twenty more years slipped away 

well, the war took his baby 

bombs killed his lady 

and left him with only one eye 

his body was battered 

his whole world was shattered 

and all he could do was just cry 

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while the tears were a' fallin' 

he was recallin' 

the 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 pylons 

and drinks his green label each day 

he's writing his memoirs 

and losing his hearing 

but 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, 

"some of it's magic, 

and some of it's tragic, 

but I had a good life all the way" 

He went to Paris 

looking for answers 

to questions that bothered him so