trouble in paris chords by Eric Andersen

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Verse 1
D 
A 
D 
 (D major)  (A major)  (D major) There's a blue shadow
A 
moving through the  (A major) moulin rouge
Bm 
And a  (B minor) man with a knife point
A 
D 
pick (A major) ing his  (D major) teeth
G 
Em 
Off  (G major) -duty cop sits with his  (E minor) back to the door
Asus4 
And some (Asus4) body just took
A 
 (A major) a  piss in the sink
D 
 (D major) The cop's drinkin'
A 
Pano thinks he's  (A major) drinkin' absinthe
Bm 
With the  (B minor) girl who loved him on
D 
the  (D major) hoose underneath
G 
While somebody's  (G major) slinkin'
Em 
smokin'  (E minor) under a light
A 
And there's  (A major) trouble in
Asus4 
Bm 
Par (Asus4) is tonight  (B minor) 
D 
Simone  (D major) pulls the collar up
A 
tight to her  (A major) throat
Bm 
While the  (B minor) riverboats knock
A 
D 
under the old  (A major) ponder  (D major) 
G 
Em 
A  (G major) rat makes a run for his  (E minor) hole in the wall
A 
Asus4 
She stops  (A major) by a street  (Asus4) light    and
A 
lights a  (A major) straight cigarette
D 
She's  (D major) torn on his knees,
A 
starts to  (A major) howl like a dog
Bm 
She  (B minor) closes the purse and tries
A 
to peer  (A major) through the fog
D 
G 
 (D major) Noth (G major) ing seems wrong,
Em 
but something  (E minor) ain't right
A 
There's  (A major) trouble in
Paris tonight
Bm 
D 
 (B minor) Now the  (D major) man cleaning his teeth,
A 
well, he  (A major) ain't satisfied
Bm 
He's  (B minor) hungry for something
A 
that he just can't define  (A major) 
G 
The  (G major) one by the sink is now
Em 
sweep (E minor) ing the floor
A 
And the  (A major) cop he ran short
of dreams a long time before
D 
Well  (D major) under a street lamp
A 
there's  (A major) trouble it seems
Bm 
First  (B minor) there's a struggle and
A 
then there's  (A major) a  scream
Bm 
G 
 (B minor) She  (G major) didn't know what hit her
Em 
when he asked  (E minor) for a light
A 
Now there's  (A major) trouble in
D 
Paris  (D major) tonight
Bm 
 (B minor) Now
D 
 (D major) Simone had been a town girl,
A 
not far  (A major) north of
Nant
Bm 
Who  (B minor) did it for money once,
A 
and then she  (A major) just couldn't stop
D 
G 
Had  (D major) a  (G major) fight with her mother,
Em 
another  (E minor) runaway teen
A 
Who had  (A major) hotel love with a cop on the rue
Saint -Denis
D 
And a  (D major) boy once abandoned
A 
by a  (A major) cop and a whore
Bm 
Has a  (B minor) knife in his hands,
A 
D 
he was a  (A major) child of the  (D major) war
A 
G 
 (A major) It was  (G major) either
Em 
Simone or cut  (E minor) out the lights
A 
And there's  (A major) trouble in
Paris tonight
Bm 
D 
 (B minor) There's a  (D major) blue shadow movin'
A 
through the  (A major) moolah roof
Bm 
A 
And a  (B minor) man with a knife point pick (A major) in'
his teeth
D 
G 
Off  (D major)  (G major) -duty cop sits with
Em 
his back  (E minor) to the door
A 
And some (A major) body just took
a piss in the sink
D 
A 
Somebody  (D major) standing out cold  (A major) in the rain
Bm 
Could  (B minor) be all warm inside
A 
Asus4 
drink (A major) ing cham (Asus4) pagne
Bm 
G 
Being  (B minor)  (G major) thin as a shadow
Em 
smoking un (E minor) der a light
A 
And there's  (A major) trouble in
Bm 
Paris tonight  (B minor) 
G 
Being thin  (G major) as a shadow
Em 
smoking un (E minor) der a light
A 
And there's  (A major) trouble in
Bm 
Paris  (B minor) tonight