The Free Electric Band original guitar chords by
Albert Hammond

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Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Our father is a doctor, he's a family man

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My mother works for charity

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when ever she can

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And they're both good clean Americans

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who abide by the law

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And they both stick up for liberty

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and they both support the war

Chorus 1

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My happiness was paid for

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when they laid their money down

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For summers in a summer camp

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and winters in the town

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Our future in the system

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was talked about and planned

But I gave it up for music

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and the free electric band

Verse 2

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i went to school in hand-washed shirts

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with neatly ordered hair

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And the school was big and newly built

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and filled with light and air

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And the teachers taught us values

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that we had to learn to keep

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And they'd clip the ear of any

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idle kid who went to sleep

Chorus 2

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And my father organized for me

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a college in the east

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But I went to California

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the sunshine and the beach

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My parents and my lecturers

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could never understand

Why I gave it up for music

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and the free electric band

Bridge 1

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Well, they used to sit and speculate

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upon their son's career

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A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer

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Just give me bread and water,

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put a guitar in my hand

'Cause all I need is music and the free electric

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band

Verse 3

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My father sent sent me money

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and I spent it very fast

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On a girl I met in Berkeley

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in a social science class

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Yes, and we learned about her body

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but her mind we didn't know

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Until deep-rooted attitudes

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and morals began to show

Chorus 3

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She wanted to get married

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even though she never said

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And I knew her well enough by now

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to see inside her head

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She'd settle for suburbia

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and a little patch of land

So I gave her up for music

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and the free electric band

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Ooh, the free electric band

Outro 1

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Da, ba, da, ba, da, da, dee, dee

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with the free electric band

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Da, ba, da, ba, da, da, dee, dee

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with the free electric band

[Repeat and fade]

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