French African Queen

Album: Take Me To The Alley (2016)
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  • I was walking round in Paris
    Near the (inaudible) Zanzibar
    Said the woman at the front door
    "Do you know the place you are?
    This place is from the fancy
    I don't think you fit the scene
    You're just an American Black boy
    I'm a French African Queen"

    And she was tall and statuesque
    She looked straight over my puzzled head
    She said "Don't make me get real ugly
    You heard just what I said"
    "I've got music for the people
    I must fulfill my precious dream
    To bring blues from America
    To the French African queen"

    "Ah, oui oui!"

    I was walking round in Paris
    Near the (inaudible) Zanzibar
    Said the woman at the front door
    "Do you know the place you are?
    This place is from the fancy
    I don't think you fit the scene
    You're just an American Black boy
    I'm a French African Queen"

    And she was tall and statuesque
    She looked straight over my puzzled head
    She said "Don't make me get real ugly
    You heard just what I said"
    "I've got music for the people
    I must fulfill my precious dream
    I bring blues from America
    To the French African queen"

    "Hear my words were not so different
    Land and language in the way
    We feel the same human feelings
    With different words we say
    We are fruit from the same tree
    I think you know just what I mean"
    "I am your American Black boy
    You're my French African queen" Writer/s: GREGORY PORTER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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