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