PARIS

Year:  1986
Album:  LEATHER JACKETS
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

Gb

C      C4\E        F	   Eb
Nobody left in the airport lounge

Bb
They cleaned the ashtrays

     F		Eb
TV's just wound down

		      F
I've got to wait till morning

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I've got to last the night

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I've only got one book

	  Bbm		    C
To see me through my flight


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But when I get to Paris

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We'll paint all our portraits

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In brush-strokes of yellow

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And christen the canvas

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The left bank is crying

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For colour to crown it

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Like the roof of a palace

		   Ab
We'll drink in the amber

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When I get to Paris


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You were the best of Montmartre Street life

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You signed the tablecloth

    F       Eb
Art has its price

		F
It's so hard to hold on

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To the ghost of your breed

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It takes ambition

	    Bbm		     C
To call the colours you need

(CHORUS)

(INSTRUMENTAL)*

(CHORUS)

		      F
I've got to wait till morning

		     Eb
I've got to last the night

	  Db
I've only got one book

	  Bbm		    C
To see me through my flight

Gb
Paris, Paris, Paris, Paris


*Instrumental solo is as follows:

		                 
RH:  A C# D D  D E F F C* D C Bb  (Eb Eb Eb Eb Bb)chord C F E E D C F C D Bb F(chord) D Eb(chord)
LH:C        E        F    Bb      (Eb Eb Eb Eb Bb)chord     Bb               F          Eb