[Part One: One Night in Paris]
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[Mme. Bezier:] Bonjour monsieur
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Paris really welcomes you
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It's the best room in the house
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It's forty francs a night, alright.
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[Touriste:] It's crazy, it isn't worth a centime
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I'll take it!
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[Mme. Bezier:] Merci Monsieur
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[Offstage Chorus:] Rouged lips in the gaslight
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A great view of the hall
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That's the way the croissant crumbles after all
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[Narrator:] Paris is only one step away
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Les girls are out on bail
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Tres bien there's love for sale
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[Coquette:] Oh my cheri, wish you were mine
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And I'll show you a wonderful time
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For the price of a cheap champagne
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I'll show it you once again
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[Voice of the Streets:] One night in Paris
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Is like a year in any other place
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One night in Paris
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Will wipe the smile off your pretty face
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One girl in Paris
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Is like loving every woman
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One night in Paris
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One night in Paris
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One night in Paris
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May be your last!!!
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[Part Two: The Same Night in Paris]
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[Hustlers (1 to 5):] Is he gonna buy?
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[1.Offstage:] You wanna little culture?
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[Hustlers:] Is he gonna pay?
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[2.Offstage:] Maybe Monsieur is into photographs, Non?
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[Hustlers:] Or is he gonna fall in love
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The all American way?
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[3.Offstage:] I got a watch wiz a beautiful Swiss movement
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[Hustlers:] Is he gonna buy?
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[4.Offstage:] Forget the watch, I'll show you a good time!
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[Hustlers:] Is he gonna pay?
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[5.Offstage:] Le connoisseur, want something different?
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[Hustlers:] Or is he gonna fall in love
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The all American way?
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[Everyone:] Oh you know you ain't no Casanova
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You can't even do the Bossa Nova
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Or the Tango or the Samba!
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[Chinese Tarts:] Though you are so very charming
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No you ain't no Casanova
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[Hustlers:] Is he gonna buy?
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Is he gonna pay?
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Or is he gonna fall in love
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The all American way?
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Sometimes I think he will
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But then again....
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[Voices of the Streets:] One night in Paris
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Is like a year in any other place!
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One night in Paris
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Will wipe the smile off your pretty face!
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Try a girl in Paris
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But try one of mine
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Each night in Paris
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Each night in Paris
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Each night in Paris
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Each night in Paris
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May be your last!!!
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[Part Three: Later the same night in Paris]
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[Coquette's Girls:] Forty-Two, Quarante-Deux
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Rue de Saint Jacques
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All our girls are how you say
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Good in the sack
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[Coquette:] I was a stripper
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On the Champs Elysees
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He was a gendarme
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In the gendarmerie
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[Girls:] Going Oh La La La
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Oh La La La La
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[Coquette:] He was a pimp
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In a black beret
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But he was an artiste
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In his own way
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[Girls:] Going Oh La La La
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Oh La La La La
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[Coquette:] When they raided my club that night
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They ruined my act with the leather umbrella
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the Chief de Police got a fright
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He was up in my boudoir with some other fella
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[Club Clientelle:] It's only routine
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But I got this feeling
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It ain't good for business
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[Narrator:] Then the floor cleared
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A woman screamed to herself
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[Henri's Lover:] Henri...Though you're not the toast of Paris
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I love you, although you bed and beat me
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Henri, leave it alone,
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For the gendarme's just doing his job
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[Narrator:] Paris is only one step away
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[Chorus:] Murder is only one step away
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[Everyone:] Notre Dame is ringing her bells
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Another gendarme has gone to Hell
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Notre Dame is ringing her bells
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Another gendarme has gone to Hell
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gone to Hell
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gone to Hell
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gone to Hell
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[Whole Cast:] One night in Paris
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Is like a year in any other place
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One night in Paris
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Will wipe the smile off your pretty face
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One girl in Paris
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Is like loving every woman
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This night in Paris
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This night in Paris
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This night in Paris
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This night in Paris
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May be your last!!!
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Une Nuit A Paris
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