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1. 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,
F
R: 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.
Em9 A Em9 A Em9 A
C D F C D G A C D F C D G A
2. I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers,
Lately I wonder what I do it for; if I had my way,
I'd just walk through those doors, and wan-der,
down the Champs Elysees;
going cafe to cabaret, thinking
how I'd feel when I find,
that very good friend of mine
R: I was a free man in Paris...
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