Artist: Eric Andersen | Song: Trouble In Paris

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Song: Trouble In Paris Tab

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. 


D                                        D/C# 
There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge
Bm                           D
And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth
G                             Em
An off duty cop sits with his back to the door
    A
And somebody just took a piss in the sink
D                                     D/C#

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

From The Ghost Upon The Road CD
Plump Records 1988