Verse:
A#D#
The way I see it he said, you just canʼt win it,
C#G#
Everybodyʼs in it for their own gain; you canʼt please ʼem all,
F#A#
Thereʼs always somebody putting you down,
D#
I do my best and I do good business,
C#
Thereʼs a lot of people asking for my time,
G#
Theyʼre tryinʼ to get ahead;
F#A#
theyʼre tryinʼ to be a good friend of mine,
Chorus:
F#
I was a free man in Paris,
G#
I felt unfettered and alive,
C#A#sus4
There was nobody callinʼ me up for favours
A#
and no-ones future to decide,
F#
You know Iʼd go back there tomorrow
G#C#
but for the work Iʼve taken on,
A#sus4D#A#
stokinʼ the star maker machinary behind the popular songs.
Verse:
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#
Iʼd just walk through those doors, and wan-der,
D#
down the Champs Elysees;
C#
going cafe to cabaret, thinking
G#
how Iʼd feel when I find,
F#A#
that very good friend of mine
Chorus.
