Key: C major•
Intro 1
C
G
C
G
Verse 1
C
G
Our father is a doctor, he's a family man
Chorus 1
C
F
My happiness was paid for
G
C
when they laid their money down
C
F
For summers in a summer camp
G
C
and winters in the town
C
F
Our future in the system
C/G
G
was talked about and planned
But I gave it up for music
C
G
C
G
and the free electric band
Verse 2
Chorus 2
C
F
And my father organized for me
G
C
a college in the east
C
F
But I went to California
G
C
the sunshine and the beach
C
F
My parents and my lecturers
C/G
G
could never understand
Why I gave it up for music
C
G
and the free electric band
Bridge 1
F
C/G
Well, they used to sit and speculate
G
C
upon their son's career
F
C/G
G
C
A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
C
F
Just give me bread and water,
C/G
G
put a guitar in my hand
'Cause all I need is music and the free electric
C
G
C
G
band
Verse 3
Chorus 3
C
F
She wanted to get married
G
C
even though she never said
C
F
And I knew her well enough by now
G
C
to see inside her head
C
F
She'd settle for suburbia
C/G
G
and a little patch of land
So I gave her up for music
C
G
and the free electric band
C
G
Ooh, the free electric band
Outro 1
[Repeat and fade]
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC G F C/G
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G
F
C/G
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