By: jimmy buffett 1973 He went to paris lookin for answers To questions that bothered him so He was impressive, young and aggressive Saving the world on his own
But the warm summer breezes The french wines and cheeses Put his ambition at bay The summers and winters Scattered like splinters 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 Locked in his attic one day Cause he liked the quiet clean country living 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 And 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 pilins And drinks his green label each day Writing his memoirs, losin his hearin But he don't care what most people say
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion If he likes you hell smile and hell say Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic But I had a good life all the way
Coda: And he went to Paris looking for answers To questions that bothered him so