John Denver - A Country Girl In Paris guitar chord

A Country Girl In Paris

John Denver

capo 3rd fret

(C) A country girl in Paris, moonlight on the Seine

Memories of Tennessee, Nashville in the (C7) rain

(F) It's such a contradiction, a heart that's filled with (C) pain

(G) A country girl in Paris dreamin' (G7) Nashville in the (C) rain

(C) She walks along the boulevard Champs Elysee

Thinks about a country boy three thousand miles (C7) away

(F) Pride is such a hard thing, It's such a price to (C) pay

To be (G) all alone in Paris with true (G7) love so far (C) away

(Am) Up upon Montmartre when she (F) stops to rest a (C) while

(Em) All the artists look at her and they (F) long to paint her (G)

smile

For (Am) even in her sorrow there's (F) something in her (C) eyes

(Em) That makes the young men jealous, (F) makes the old men (G)

sigh

(C) - - - - - (C7)

(F) - - - - (C)

(G) A country girl in Paris . . . (G7) - (C)

(Am) They say the loss of innocence is (F) always linked to (C) pain

(Em) For once the heart is opened nothing (F) ever is the (G) same

(Am) And so the evening lends itself to (F) lovers and ro (C) mance

(Em) The way to heal a broken heart is to (F) give true love

Just (G) one more chance (G7)

(C) A country girl in Paris, moonlight on the Seine

Memories of Tennessee, Nashville in the (C7) rain

(F) It's such a contradiction, a heart that's filled with (C) pain

(G) A country girl in Paris dreamin' (G7) Nashville in the (C) rain

(G) A country girl in Paris, longing (G7) for Nashville in the (C)

rain