He Went To Paris

This song is beautiful and at times it gives me chills. It's a song about life, and nothing is ever better than that. My father loves this song, as well as my four year old cousin who knows it word for word. Her favorite part is "And left him with only one eye."

Oh yeah...and my name is also in the song! :]

To me... this is a sad song. But I admit that it didn't seem as sad until I saw the video of the old man sitting by the sea. He just sits there and drinks. He has lost everything. BUT the old man in the song doesn't seem as sad. He is factual , just telling the story of his life. He states that it has been a good life. I would like to hear who Jimmy says its about. I thought it was based on Earnest Hemmingway w. Rainy Night in Georgia is the most lonesome song to me. I just imagine how alone the guy is. Conway Twitty and Sam Moore are my favorite singers.

you gotta live life. it will have its high and low moments and maybe in the end we all will end on some small island. but "some of it's magic, some of it's tragic But I had a good life all the way." gotta live it

just an old man that jimmy met up with on his travels that told him his life story. he likes jimmy so he tells him "jimmy some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but i had a good life all the way".

No matter what happens, you have to live your life, it has its highs and its lows, but you gotta live it.

It's never too late to find your answers to life's questions. Life is going to take you places you don't expect, to your highest of mountains and your roughests of valleys. You have to keep living, and be thankful for what you were given instead of bitter of what was taken away. "some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I had a good life all the way." is definitely the most highlighted and most meaningful line of the song.

What I like about it as much as I hate it is Jimmy is saying, we all have our questions, while I want to know what this guys questions were , he creates such rich and interesting characters that isn't what Jimmy explores, he only uses the character to point out the fact that many have "questions that bother them so" I love Jimmy, I became a fan when I stumbled across "Come Monday", my mother had recently started listening to country soon after my Father left, and when i turned the house radio on that song was playing before i could put it on a rock station, I was so lucky. . I only caught part of the song and in those days we didn't have google so you just had to listen day after day to hear it again in hopes of identifying it. I was Black Oak Arkansas, Led Zep, Fog Hat, Sabbath, Aerosmith etc and all the 70's hard rock, than so this was quite a deviance for me but that song grabbed me and I liked the mind of a man that could put such emotion to song. Then Changes came out and I was hooked. I cannot pick a favorite song , but a few lines that I cherish are: I wanted so much to do this "He's goin' back to New York pack it up and let everyone know (back to New York) It was something that he should have done such a long time ago Still, time to start a new life in the palm trees Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane And if it doesn't work out, there'll never be any doubt That the pleasure was worth all the pain" and the seemingly autobiographical, "if it all falls down" which was written my Matt Betton and to my surprise Jimmy "Guidance counselor said Your scores are anti-heroic Computer recommend Hard-drinking calypso poet ... I can juggle verbs, adverbs, and nouns ... "

as long as we remember he is still here love you Jimmy