Verse:
G#C#
The way I see it he said, you just canʼt win it,
BF#
Everybodyʼs in it for their own gain; you canʼt please ʼem all,
EG#
Thereʼs always somebody putting you down,
C#
I do my best and I do good business,
B
Thereʼs a lot of people asking for my time,
F#
Theyʼre tryinʼ to get ahead;
EG#
theyʼre tryinʼ to be a good friend of mine,
Chorus:
E
I was a free man in Paris,
F#
I felt unfettered and alive,
BG#sus4
There was nobody callinʼ me up for favours
G#
and no-ones future to decide,
E
You know Iʼd go back there tomorrow
F#B
but for the work Iʼve taken on,
G#sus4C#G#
stokinʼ the star maker machinary behind the popular songs.
Verse:
G#C#
I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers,
BF#
Lately I wonder what I do it for; if I had my way,
EG#
Iʼd just walk through those doors, and wan-der,
C#
down the Champs Elysees;
B
going cafe to cabaret, thinking
F#
how Iʼd feel when I find,
EG#
that very good friend of mine
Chorus.