Intro  
               
(A) He went to Paris lookin' for answers  
To (D) questions that bothered him (A) so  
He was impressive, young and aggressive  
(D) Savin' the world on his (E7) own  
But the (D) warm summer breezes  
The (A) French wines and cheeses  
(D) Put his ambition at (E7) bay  
The (A) summers and winters  
Scattered like splinters                 
And (D) four or five (E) years slipped a(A)way  
   
Then (A) he went to England, played the piano  
And (D) married an actress named (A) Kim  
They had a fine life, she was a good wife  
And (D) bore him a young son named (E7) Jim  
And (D) all of the answers   
To (A) all of the questions  
(D) Locked in his attic one (E7) day  
'Cause (A) he liked the quiet clean country livin'  
And (D) twenty more (E) years slipped a(A)way  
   
Well the (A) war took his baby, the bombs k*lled his lady  
And (D) left him with only one (A) eye  
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered  
And (D) all he could do was just (E7) cry  
While the (D) tears were a-fallin' (A) he was recallin'  
(D) Answers he never (E7) found  
So he (A) hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean  
And (D) left England (E7) without a (A) sound  
   
Solo  
  
Now he (A) lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's   
And (D) drinks his Green Label each (A) day  
Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'  
But he (D) don't care what most people (E7) say  
Through (D) eighty-six years of (A) perpetual motion  
If he (D) likes you he'll smile and he'll (E7) say   
"Jimmy, (A) some of it's magic, some of it's tragic  
But I (D) had a good (E) life all the (A) way"  
  
(A) He went to Paris lookin' for answers  
To (D) questions that bothered him (A) so