He Went To Paris Lyrics - Waylon Jennings

(Jimmy Buffett) 

He went to Paris lookin' for answers 

To questions that bothered him so 

He was impressive young and agressive 

Savin' the world on his own. 

Warm summer breezes French wine and cheeses 

Put his ambition at bay 

The summers and winters scattered like splinters 

And four or five years slipped away. 

He went to England played the piano 

And married an actress named Kim 

They had a good life she was a good wife 

And bore him a young son named Jim. 

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All of the answers and all of the questions 

He locked in his attic one day 

'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin' 

And twenty more years slipped away. 

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War took his baby bombs killed his lady 

And left him with only one eye 

His body was battered his whole world was shattered 

All he could do was just cry. 

While the tears were fallin' he was recallin' 

Answers that he never found 

So he hopped in a freighter skidded the ocean 

And left England without a sound. 

Now he lives in the island fishes the pilin' 

And drinks his green label each day 

Writin' his memoirs losin' his hearin' 

But he don't care what most people say. 

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After eighty-six years of perpetual motion 

If he likes you he'll smile and say 

Well, some of it's magic probably tragic 

But I had a good life all the way. 

He went to Paris lookin' for answers 

To questions that bothered him so...