Key: D
Introduction:
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 A4
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,
A4 D A
stokin' the star maker machinary behind the popular songs.
Instrumental bit ... (mix it about a bit!)
Em9 A Em9 A Em9A
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
End instrumental bit ...
A C D F C D GA
From: * (Howard Wright \(Hman\))
tabbed by Howard Wright
D
a semitone or a tone.
each time the chord changes. Check out the record for details on strumming
D
A
F#
D
A
D
D
A
F#
D
A
D
Carry on strumming that chord at the seventh fret for a few bars.....
Verse 1
D
A
F#
D
A
D
'The way I see it' he said 'you just can't win it, everybody's
D
A
F#
D
A
D
in it for their own gain you can't please them all there's always
D
A
F#
D
A
D
somebody shooting you down. I do my best and I do good business
D
A
F#
D
A
D
there's a lot of people asking for my time trying to get ahead
D
A
F#
D
A
D
trying to be a good friend of mine
Chorus
D
A
F#
D
A
D
I was a free man in paris I felt unfettered and alive there was
D
A
F#
D
A
D
nobody calling me up for favours and noone's future to decide
D
A
F#
D
A
D
you know I'd go back there tomorrow but for the work I've taken on
D
A
F#
D
A
D
stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song
D
A
F#
D
A
D
Repeat this last line once
(p=pull off)