Free Man in Paris
Words and Music by Joni Mitchell


          A                              D
The way I see it he said, you just can't win it,
            C                                              G
Everybody's in it for their own gain; you can't please 'em all,
               F                       A
There's always somebody putting you down,
                           D
I do my best and I do good business,
                        C                  
There's a lot of people asking for my time,
                          G
They're tryin' to get ahead; 
                  F                   A 
they're tryin' to be a good friend of   mine,

Chorus
        F
I was a free man in Paris, 
       G
I felt unfettered and alive, 
C                  Asus4                      
There was nobody callin' me up for favours 
            A
and no-ones future to decide,
             F
You know I'd go back there tomorrow 
            G                   C
but for the work I've taken on,
            Asus4          D                A               
stokin' the star maker machinary behind the popular songs.  

Instrumental bit ... (mix it about a bit!)

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Verse 2:

          A                        D  
I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers,
         C                                    G
Lately I wonder what I do it for; if I had my way,
         F                                A
I'd just walk through those doors, and wan-der,
                  D     
down the Champs Elysees;
              C                 
going cafe to cabaret, thinking
                         G      
how I'd feel when I find,  
     F                   A 
that very good friend of   mine



Chorus:

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source: Julie P Wilks