Joni Mitchell – Free Man In Paris (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Joni Mitchell From: "Court and Spark" (1974) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Chords]
       E-A-D-G-B-E
F *    x-8-7-5-6-5
D/A    x-0-4-2-3(2)
C/G    3-x-2-0-1-0
Em9    0-2-0-0-0-2  or
       0-2-2-0-3-2
Asus4  x-0-2-2-3-0
F/C    x-3-x-2-1-1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] 7/8
| C D F*   | C G A    |  
            3/8  4/4
| C D F* | C G | A | % | [Verse 1]
           A                        
"The way I see it", he said,

                D/A
"You just can't win it ...

            C/G
Everybody's in it for their own gain

                      G
You can't please them all

               F                    A
There's always somebody calling you down

                           D/A
I do my best and I do good business

                        C/G
There's a lot of people asking for my time

                       G
They're trying to get ahead

                  F                  | A | % |
They're trying to be a good friend of mine
[Chorus]
        F/C
I was a free man in Paris

         G              C
I felt unfettered and alive

                 Asus4             D
There was nobody calling me up for favors

             A
And no one’s future to decide

             F/C
You know I'd go back there tomorrow

            G               C
But for the work I've taken on

            Asus4        D
Stoking the star-maker machinery 

           A
Behind the popular song
[Interlude]
| Em9 | A | Em9 | A | 
               7/8

| C D F*   | C G A    |  
            3/8  4/4
| C D F* | C G | A | % | [Verse 2]
          A 
I deal in dreamers

              D/A
And telephone screamers

         C/G
Lately I wonder what I do it for

            G
If I had my way

         F                            A
I'd just walk through those doors and wander

                 D/A
Down the Champs-Élysées

              C/G
Going café to cabaret 

                            G
Thinking how I'll feel when I find

     F                   | A | % |
That very good friend of mine
[Chorus]
        F/C
I was a free man in Paris

         G              C
I felt unfettered and alive

                 Asus4             D
There was nobody calling me up for favors

             A
And no one’s future to decide

             F/C
You know I'd go back there tomorrow

            G               C
But for the work I've taken on

            Asus4        D
Stoking the star-maker machinery 

           A
Behind the popular song["]
[Interlude] | Em9 | A | Em9 | A | [Coda] 7/8
| C D F*   | C G A    |  
               7/8

| C D F*   | C G A    |
            3/8
| C D F* | C G | A