10CC - Une Nuit a Paris

Part One: One Night in Paris
Mme. Bezier: Bonjour monsieur
Paris really welcomes you
It's the best room in the house
It's forty francs a night, alright.

Touriste: It's crazy, it
isn't worth a centime
I'll take it!
Mme. Bezier: Merci Monsieur
Offstage Chorus: Rouged
lips in the gaslight
A great view of the hall
That's the way the croissant
crumbles after all
Narrator: Paris is only one step away
Les girls are out on bail
Tres bien there's love for sale
Coquette: Oh my cheri, wish you were mine
And I'll show you a wonderful time
For the price of a cheap champagne
I'll show it you once again
Voice of the Streets: One night in Paris
Is like a year in any other place
One night in Paris
Will wipe the smile off your pretty face
One girl in Paris
Is like loving every woman
One night in Paris
One night in Paris
One night in Paris
May be your last!!!

Part Two: The Same Night in Paris
Hustlers (1 to 5): Is he gonna buy?
1.Offstage: You wanna little culture?
Hustlers: Is he gonna pay?
2.Offstage: Maybe Monsieur is
into photographs, Non?
Hustlers: Or is he gonna fall in love
The all American way?
3.Offstage: I got a watch wiz a
beautiful Swiss movement
Hustlers: Is he gonna buy?
4.Offstage: Forget the watch,
I'll show you a good time!
Hustlers: Is he gonna pay?
5.Offstage: Le connoisseur,
want something different?
Hustlers: Or is he gonna fall in love
The all American way?
Everyone: Oh you know you
ain't no Casanova
You can't even do the Bossa Nova
Or the Tango or the Samba!
Chinese Tarts: Though you
are so very charming
No you ain't no Casanova
Hustlers: Is he gonna buy?
Is he gonna pay?
Or is he gonna fall in love
The all American way?
Sometimes I think he will
But then again....
Voices of the Streets: One night in Paris
Is like a year in any other place!
One night in Paris
Will wipe the smile off your pretty face!
Try a girl in Paris
But try one of mine
Each night in Paris
Each night in Paris
Each night in Paris
Each night in Paris
May be your last!!!

Part Three: Later the same night in Paris
Coquette's Girls:
Forty-Two, Quarante-Deux
Rue de Saint Jacques
All our girls are how you say
Good in the sack
Coquette: I was a stripper
On the Champs Elysees
He was a gendarme
In the gendarmerie
Girls: Going Oh La La La
Oh La La La La
Coquette: He was a pimp
In a black beret
But he was an artiste
In his own way
Girls: Going Oh La La La
Oh La La La La
Coquette: When they raided
my club that night
They ruined my act with
the leather umbrella
the Chief de Police got a fright
He was up in my boudoir
with some other fella
Club Clientelle: It's only routine
But I got this feeling
It ain't good for business
Narrator: Then the floor cleared
A woman screamed to herself
Henri's Lover:
Henri...Though you're not the
toast of Paris
I love you, although you bed and beat me
Henri, leave it alone,
For the gendarme's just doing his job
Narrator: Paris is only one step away
Chorus: Murder is only one step away
Everyone: Notre Dame is ringing her bells
Another gendarme has gone to Hell
Notre Dame is ringing her bells
Another gendarme has gone to Hell
gone to Hell
gone to Hell
gone to Hell
Whole Cast: One night in Paris
Is like a year in any other place
One night in Paris
Will wipe the smile off your pretty face
One girl in Paris
Is like loving every woman
This night in Paris
This night in Paris
This night in Paris
This night in Paris
May be your last!!!