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He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so
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He was impressive young and aggressive savin' the world on his own
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But the warm summer breezes the French wine and cheeses put his ambition at bay
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The summers and winters scattered like splinters
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And four or five years slipped away
Then he went to England played the piano and married an Actress named Kim
They had a fine life she was a good wife and bore him a young son named Jim
And all of the answers and all of the questions he locked in his attic one day
Cause he liked the quiet clean county livin'
And twenty more years slipped away
Well the war took his baby the bombs killed his lady and left him with only one eye
His body was battered his whole world was shattered all he could do was just cry
While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin' answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound
Now he lives in the islands fishes the pilin's and drinks his Green Label each day
Writing his memoirs losin' his hearin' but he don't care what people say
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion if he likes you he'll smile then he'll say
Jimmy some of it's magic some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way
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And he went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions that
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bothered him so