Chords for Greg Lake - C'est la Vie - April 2012

_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Db] _
_ I used to live in _ [Ab] _ Paris for a while and [Em] _ [D] I used to go out walking [Cm] the streets there quite
a lot and [G] _ sometimes when you walk around you hear this, I don't know what they call it,
it's a little barrel organ [C] thing, they wind [Gb] it and it's got this special sound, it's very
very French [B]
and for some reason I've [Abm] always liked France _ [A]
and French music.
[Em] I very much like [Abm] Edith Piaf _ and [Gb] if you've never heard her, she's worth listening to.
_ [F] For some reason I'd always fancied writing [G] a song with some French sort of flavour to
it and so one day I'd heard this barrel organ winding [N] away and so I sat down with my guitar
and I don't really [Am] speak French but [Ab] I knew this phrase, c'est la vie, that's life, that's
life _ and [G] I thought maybe I could make a [Abm] song out of that.
So anyway [A] I wrote the song and we recorded it in Paris and we put it on the record and
put it on the album and sometime later [Gb] the song got covered by a man called Johnny Halliday
and [Eb] Johnny Halliday, Johnny Halliday, _ is actually the French Elvis [G] Presley and he's very [C] very
popular and he's been popular for [B] many many years.
[Em] They say that [Bm] there's not a French person over the age of 16 that [B] hasn't seen him live,
perform live, quite an incredible statistic, it's true, [Gb] I believe it probably is.
Anyway he recorded _ _ C'est la vie and he had a number one hit with it and I was very proud
because you know it's not easy for an Englishman to write a French song, they don't _ like it
very much and so that gave me a lot of joy.
_ So anyway I'd like to perform [N] it for you tonight, here it is, C'est la vie. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [D] C'est la vie, _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] have your leaves all turned to brown, _ [Bb] will you scatter them [C] around?
_ [Dm] C'est la vie, _ _ _ _ _ do you [D] love?
[Dm] _ _ _ _ And then [C] how am I to know, _ _ [Bb] if you don't let your [C] love show for [Dm] me?
_ _ _ _ _ Oh [Gm] _
_ _ C [C] _ _ [Dm]'est la vie, _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ oh _ _ [C] C [Dm]'est la vie, _ _ _ _ [E] who knows?
_ _ Yes, _ [A] all.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
C [D]'est la vie, _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ life of the song, _ _ _ _ out of [C] tune and out of time, _ all I [Bb] needed _ was [C] a rhyme.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ To [C] you from the day, _ _ is [Bb] there no song I [C] can play for [Dm] you?
C'est _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] la vie, _ oh _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ C [Dm]'est la vie, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ oh [E] _
_ _ [A] C _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm]'est la vie, _ _
_ Do [C] you love this fire?
_ Do [Bb] you think I can?
_ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] There's a love _ show, _ from [Bb] the start, all [C] my life knows.
[Dm] C _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Dm]'est la vie, _ _ oh _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ C [Dm]'est la vie, _ _
_ Do you [E] love this _ _ _ _ fire?
[A] _ _ C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]'est la vie.
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