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[macafeez]

JONI MITCHELL 'FREE MAN IN PARIS' LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
The way I see it, he said, you just can't win it
Everybody's in it for their own gain
You can't please 'em all
There's always somebody calling you down
I do my best and I do good business
There's a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
They're trying to be a good friend of mine

[Chorus]
I was a free man in Paris, I felt unfettered and alive
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song
[Verse 2]
I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way, I'd just walk through those doors
And wander down the Champs-Élysées
Going café to cabaret
Thinking how I'll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine

[Chorus]
I was a free man in Paris, I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
No one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song

[macafeez]

'FREE MAN IN PARIS' SONG INFORMATION & TRIVIA:
"Free Man in Paris" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It appeared on her 1974 album Court and Spark, as well as her 1980 live album Shadows and Light. It is ranked No. 470 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song is about music agent/promoter David Geffen, a close friend of Mitchell in the early 1970s, and describes Geffen during a trip the two made to Paris with Robbie and Dominique Robertson. While Geffen is never mentioned by name, Mitchell describes how he works hard creating hits and launching careers but can find some peace while vacationing in Paris. Mitchell sings "I was a free man in Paris. I felt unfettered and alive. Nobody calling me up for favors. No one's future to decide."

Reception
Billboard described it as having a "good mix of acoustic and electric instrumentals" with Mitchell's "distinctive vocals.' Cash Box said that "lyrically, this is a total gem and the musical arrangement is letter perfect" and that "the melody is infectious."

Bob Dylan selected it for inclusion on the Starbucks compilation album Joni Mitchell: Selected Songs in 2005. For the album's liner notes, Dylan wrote: "I always liked this song because I'd been to Paris and understood what being a free man there was all about. Paris was, after all, where freedom and the guillotine lived side by side. I'm not so sure that the meaning I heard in the song was what Joni intended but I couldn't stop listening to it".

Chart performance
"Free Man in Paris" went to number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and to number two on the Easy Listening chart.

Notable versions and covers
In the 1970s, an instrumental version of the song was the theme music used for CBC Television's The Saturday Evening News, which aired at 6 p.m. until 1982 when it was replaced with Saturday Report.
-Aimee Mann
-Neil Diamond
-Sufjan Stevens (on the album A Tribute to Joni Mitchell)
-Adrienne Young
-Phish
-Alanis Morissette
-JoJo who changed the title to "White Girl in Paris".

In April 2000 the song was performed by Elton John at an all-star celebration of Mitchell, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, presented by the TNT network.
Personnel
Joni Mitchell – vocals, guitars
Tom Scott – woodwinds
José Feliciano, Larry Carlton – electric guitars
Wilton Felder – bass
John Guerin – drums
David Crosby and Graham Nash – backing vocals

[billyva]

Awesome selection, when I was selling high end Audio equipment in the late 70's I used to use this LP as a demo, especially for vocals. Brings back some great memories. Thanks.