Claire Fontaine

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[Verse 1]
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Claire Fontaine who are you ? I like
 the paper you
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make
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We were introduced by a lover of 
mine
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and now she's gone and I still have 
you Claire
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Fontaine


[Chorus]
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Claire Fontaine you seem to
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bring the best out of
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me and the things that
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I write to sing Claire
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Fontaine


[Verse 2]
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Claire Fontaine are you a lumberjack
 or something ?
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Does your father own a forest of the
 nicest trees for chopping ? Claire
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Fontaine
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Claire Fontaine your sheets are very
 smooth I like to
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rub my pen across them do you feel 
the way I do ? Claire
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Fontaine


[Chorus]
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Claire Fontaine you seem to
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bring the best out of
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me and the things that
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I write to sing Claire
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Fontaine


[Verse 3]
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If the newspapers used your paper 
for the news
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Things may seem less terrifying just
 because of you Claire
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Fontaine
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And were you in a garden when they 
said the war had started
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did you think you'd write a letter 
that would start 'my dear 
departed'Claire
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Fontaine


[Chorus]
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Claire Fontaine you seem to
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bring the best out of
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me and the things that
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I write to sing Claire
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Fontaine


[Bridge]
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 Claire
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Fontaine      Claire
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Fontaine      Claire
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Fontaine
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oooaaaaah !


[Verse 4]
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Claire Fontaine, I'm going home this
 christmas
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They may refuse me the entry 'cause 
you're native of this country Claire
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Fontaine
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But as a foreigner relinquish a pad 
of paper so distinguished
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I say never never never, I'll take 
this pad of mine to heaven Claire
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Fontaine


[Bridge 2]
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Where maybe I will choose to write a
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fan mail or two, I might write
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one to Andy Warhol and the
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other one for you and you can
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rest assured in knowing they'd be
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on your paper too
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Claire Fontaine, who are you ?


[Chorus]
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Claire Fontaine you seem to
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bring the best out of
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me and the things that
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I write to sing Claire
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Fontaine