Dick Valentine - I Dont Speak French Ukulele

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                             I Don't Speak French - Dick Valentine
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G
I met a girl named Gabrielle
She was dressed in black and young as hell
    C
She took me to her domicile
D
Invited me to stay a while

G
She fed me breakfast and fed me wine
And later on we took the time
    C
To explore each others areas
D                          Em
Run into a language barrier

         G
It can be so frustrating
C                   Am
The way we insist on communicating
     C               D
But I do not parley-vous you

G
I don't speak French
     C           D               G
But somehow I've gotten on her good side
C D G
Oh! I don't speak French
     C           D              G
But there's only one thing on her mind.
Oh I.


G
Voulez-vous mon ami
Bonsoir, baby
  C
Is all I know how to say right now
D
But you can bet I'm learning how

G
'Cos where I'm from the thing to do
Is to paint yourself red, white and blue
C
How about you?
D                                    Em
Can you say you do the same thing too
             G
I'm just your average Yankee
C                    Am
Trapped in a world of French hanky-panky
       C               D
But I do not parlez-vous you

G
I don't speak French
     C         D               G
But I've got a sh*t load of Euros
C D  G
Oh I! I don't speak French
C                 D              G
But that doesn't matter to French girls.
C D     G
Oh I. Come on!

C D G C D G

There's a plane on the ground at JFK
C
For me it waits
   D
To carry me away to you
G
The things we did
The things we didn't do
C
Oh Gabrielle
D                          Em
I learnt so much from you

              G
You taught me how to surrender
C                           Am 
Instinctual behavior from a time you don't remember
          C                                        D
But thank God the allies crushed the Nazis on the 6th of November

G
I don't speak French
    C              D            G
But somehow I've gotten on a good time
C D   G                
Oh I! I don't speak French
    C               D                 G
But there's only one thing on her mind.
C D     G
Oh yeah! I don't speak French
   C             D                     G
But that doesn't matter to French girls
C  D  G              
Oh I! I don't speak French
             C                D             G
'Cos it's useless most places in the world.