Key: F major
Verse 1
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On a Paris boulevard,
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I picked up a postal card
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someone had forgotten
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to mail.
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Seems as though some
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tourist had meant for it
to reach her dad,
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for it told a typical tale.
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Naturally, I read what
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she wro te
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and I quote
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I came to Paris to buy me a gown
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To Paris, to Paris, oh, what a town
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The lights were shining, the music was gay
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I bought me my gown
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Now Papa don't preach to me,
preach to me
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Papa don't preach to me
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Now Papa don't preach to me,
preach to me
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Let me fling till my fling is all flung
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That X marks my room,
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but I'm never up there
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I strolled through Paris
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today with Maurice
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means the street of the beast
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Now Papa don't preach to me,
preach to me
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Papa don't preach to me
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Let my heart break if it must
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Now Papa don't preach to me
preach to me
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and don't cut off my guaranteed trust
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I'm here in Paris, since early in May
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but I'm still okay
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I'm made for Paris,
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I'm finding that out
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I still have no past,
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but the future's endowed
preach to me,
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Let my heart break, let it roll
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Now Papa don't preach to me,
preach to me,
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Or I'll never, no never come home
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