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“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 live album Shadows and Light. It is one of her most popular songs. The song is about music agent/promoter David Geffen, a close friend of Mitchell in the early 1970s, and describes Geffen during a trip Geffen and Mitchell made to Paris with Robbie and Dominique Robertson. “Free Man in Paris” went to number twenty-two on the Hot 100 and to number two on the Easy Listening chart. The home key of the song is A-major. The scale of A-Major consists of the notes A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G#-(A). Thus, A is “scale degree 1,“ B “scale degree 2,“ etc. The frequent substitution of “flattened” scale degrees (flat-6 and flat-7; that is, in A-major,... Read on...