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Moonlight Over Paris Tab

by Paolo Santos


     MOONLIGHT OVER PARIS by Paolo Santos

STANDARD TUNING WITH CAPO ON 4th FRET
(All chords relative to capo)

CHORDS : G/D  - 3x0233   E/CM  - 030010   D    - xx0232   Em9 - 022030
         C9   - x32030   D5    - xx0230   BbM7 - x13231   Dm7 - xx0211
         C    - x32010   C9/G  - x32033   D5~9 - xx023x   Am7 - x02010
         Bm7  - x24230   Em7/G - 020033   B    - x202xx   G   - 3x0033
         CM~9 - x3003x
         
INTRO :
riff 1                        riff 2
 G/D            E/CM D         G/D         E/CM D
-------------------------     -----3---3-----3----3-
-----0-----0----1-0------     -----0---0---3----3---
----(2)-2-(2)---0-0--0-2- and -------2-----0----2---
---0----------0-0------0-     ---0-------0------0---
----------------3--------     -------------3--------
-3--------------0--------     -3-----------0--------
*** Both riffs are essential to the song. Interchange them so you'll
    look like you know what you're doing!

VERSE 1 :
D                   Em9
You say you've been overseas 
C9          D5
I say, "Over where?" 
D                 Em9
You say, "Just a holiday, 
C9           D5
My Alsatian heir."                                  
BbM7               C      Dm7   BbM7          C             lick 1
I say, "I've been working late, working overtime.         * ---------
D                Em9                    C9/G    D5~9*       ---3----- 
Haven't seen the sun since sixty-nine."                     -(2----2-
                                                            -)0----0-
CHORUS :                                                    ---------
G/D                E/CM                                     ---------
Does the moonlight shine on Paris, 
C9/G                G/D
After the sun goes down?
G/D               E/CM
If the London Bridge is falling, 
     C9/G               D5
Will anybody hear a sound?                               
Am7               Bm7     C9           D5                lick 2 
If you follow the sunset, will it ever end?            * ------------
Em7/G              Am7*                                  -)0h1-0-----
Does the moonlight shine on Paris?                       -(0---0-2-0-
CM~9     D5~9                                            -)2-----0-0-
Da-dada--da-dada--                                       -(0---------
                                                         ------------
DO INTRO

VERSE 2 :
       D                Em9
Oh and how can you just walk away,
      C9                  D5
Is it something that I said?
D           Em9
I see only black and white, 
C9                 D5
You see green and red.
BbM7               C   Dm7   BbM7        C
You believe in the miracles, water into wine. 
D                    Em9                      C9/G    D5~9*
I'll believe when it makes the New York Times.            * do lick 1

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL : 


CHORUS

CM~9     D5~9
Oh--     Oh--

CHORUS

OUTRO : 
do intro riff, then :
  Am7       Em9      D5~9     C        B         Am7         D   G
----------------------------------------------------------------(3-
-)1-0-----------3--------3--------1-------------)0h1-0----------)3-
-(0---0-------0---0----2---0----0---0------2----(0-----0----(0--(0-
-)2-----2-----0------0-------------------0---2--)2-------2--)0--)0-
-(0---------------------------3--------2--------(0--------------(x-
------------0---------------------------------------------------)3-