Free Man in Paris
Joni Mitchell • Key:
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Free Man in Paris
Joni Mitchell
#From: J.P.Wilks@cs.bham.ac.uk (Julie P Wilks)
The way I
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see it he said, you just can't
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win it,
Everybody's
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in it for their own gain; you can't please 'em
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all,
There's always
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somebody putting you dow
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n,
I do my best and I do good
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business,
There's a lot of people
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asking for my time,
They're tryin' to get ahea
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d;
they're tryin' to
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be a good friend of
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mine,
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I was a
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free man in Paris,
I felt
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unfettered and alive,
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There was nobody ca
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llin' me up for favours
and no-ones
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future to decide,
You know I'd
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go back there tomorrow
but for the
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work I've taken on,
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stokin' the
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star maker mach
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inary behind the
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popular songs.
#Instrumental
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Verse 2:
I deal in
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dreamers and telephone sc
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reamers,
Lately I
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wonder what I do it for; if I had my
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way,
I'd just
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walk through those doors, and wan
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-der,
down the Champs El
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ysees;
going cafe to
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cabaret, thinking
how I'd feel when I find,
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that
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very good friend of
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mine
Chorus:
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