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1. The way I see it he said, you just can't win it,
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   Everybody's in it for their own gain; you can't please 'em all,
                  F                       A
   There's always somebody putting you down,
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   I do my best and I do good business,
                           C
   There's a lot of people asking for my time,
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   They're tryin' to get ahead;
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   they're tryin' to be a good friend of mine,

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R: I was a free man in Paris,
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   I felt unfettered and alive,
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   There was nobody callin' me up for favours
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   and no-ones future to decide,
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   You know I'd go back there tomorrow
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   but for the work I've taken on,
               Asus4          D                A
   stokin' the star maker machinary behind the popular songs.

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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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