To Be Free chords by
The Strawbs

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Key: C major

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The gilt- edged
invitation came
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And I said, "What can this mean,
C C 
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To attend the coronation
As the first guest of the Queen,
F F 
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G G 
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And sit upon her right hand
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Where the Prince is mostly seen?"
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The maids of honour stared at me
And register surprised
To see a man of such good taste
Appear before their eyes
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Now being rather humble
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I adopted a disguise
G G 
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As the Minister of State
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For Mass Environment Controls,
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Who condemn the working classes
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For inhabiting the holes
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That belong to Queen and Country,
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G G 
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But do not permit their souls
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G G 
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To be free like me.
C C 
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F F 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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C C 
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F F 
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The
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perspex chandelier
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C C 
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Began to melt and slip away;
One million candle- powered
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It kept the night at bay.
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While the power station workers
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Were busy making hay,
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The workers in the fields
Were engaged in self- defence,
Which involved the use of barbed wire
As a self- containing fence,
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But as a means of self- protection
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It was needlessly immense.
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I stopped to ask them for a light,
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They pointed at the sun,
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Which raised their hopes of harvesting
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A better crop than guns
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Can ever mass- produce
At the expense of anyone
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G G 
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Who is free like me.
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G G 
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C C 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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The
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F F 
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C C 
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F F 
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C C 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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C C 
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C C 
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G G 
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F F 
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G G 
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F F 
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G G 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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F F 
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C C 
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solitary
peasant
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In his home above the lake,
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Raised high on woooden stilts,
Has made the singular mistake
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Of revolutionary conduct
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At the celebration wake.
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His urban counterpart,
Engaged in mundane occupation,
Enjoys the chance of laughing
At the Queen's humiliation
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G G 
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At the hands of Ministers of State
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For Rehabilitation,
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Now the power station worker,
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Though his aim is too disjointed,
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Finds himself around the corner;
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While his gun is never pointed,
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He is ever at the ready,
He desires to be anointed
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F F 
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G G 
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C C 
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And be free like me.

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