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