Eric Andersen Trouble In Paris by Eric Andersen Andy Newmark drums Michael Visceglia bass Mark Hamza keyboards Michael Blair percussion John Leventhal guitars Shawn Colvin backing vocals. D5 D5 There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge B5 D5 And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth G5 E5 An off duty cop sits with his back to the door A5 And somebody just took a piss in the sink D5 D5 The cop's drinkin Pernod thinks he's drinkin absinthe B5 D5 With the girl who had loved him on the Rue St. Denis G5 E5 While somebody's slinkin smokin under a light A5 B5 And there's trouble in Paris tonight D5 D5 Now Simone pulls the collar up tight to her throat B5 D5 While the riverboats knock under the old Pont Neuf G5 E5 A rat makes a run for his hole in the wall A5 She stops by a street light and lights a straight cigarette D5 D5 A Gitane on his knees starts to howl like a dog B5 D5 She closes her purse and tries to peer through the fog G5 E5 Nothin seems wrong but somethin ain't right A5 B5 And there's trouble in Paris tonight D5 D5 Now the man cleanin his teeth well he ain't satisfied B5 D5 He's hungry for somethin that he just can't define G5 E5 The one by the sink is now sweeping the floor A5 And the cop he ran short of dreams a long time beforeo D5 D5 While under a street lamp there's trouble it seems B5 D5 First there's a struggle and then there's a scream G5 E5 She didn't know what hit her when he asked for a light A5 B5 And there's trouble in Paris tonight D5 D5 Simone had been a town girl not far north of Nantes B5 D5 Who did it for money once then she just couldn't stop G5 E5 Had a fight with her mother another runaway teen A5 Who had hotel love with a cop on the Rue St. Denis D5 D5 And a boy once abandoned by a cop and a whore B5 D5 Has a knife in his hands he was a child of the war G5 E5 It was either Simone or cut out the lights A5 B5 And there's trouble in Paris tonight D5 D5 There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge B5 D5 And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth G5 E5 An off duty cop sits with his back to the door A5 And somebody just took a piss in the sink D5 D5 While somebody's standin out cold in the rain B5 D5 Could be all warm inside drinking champagne G5 E5 Being thin as a shadow smokin under a light A5 B5 And there's trouble in Paris tonight G5 E5 Bein thin as a shadow smokin under a light A5 B5 And there's trouble in Paris tonight From The Ghost Upon The Road CD Plump Records 1988
