Artist: Albert Hammond
Song: The Free Electric Band
Tabbed by: DJ
24th July 2013
Tuning: Standard
C = x32010 F = 133211 C/G = 332010
(C4) = x33010 G/B = x20033 G7 = 323003 or 320001
G = 320033
* = No chords, tap beat on guitar body
The (C4) is only implied, but adds interest.
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C (C4)(C) G
||: / / / /__/ | / / / / :|| (Twice)
C (C4) (C) G
My father is a doctor, he's a family man,
C (C4) (C) G
My mother works for chari - ty, when - ever she can,
C (C4) (C) G
They're both good, clean, Americans who a - bide by the law,
C (C4) (C) G
And they both stick up for liber - ty, and they both support the war!
C F G/B C
My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down,
C F G/B C
For summers in a summer - camp, and winters in the town,
C F C/G G G7
My future in the system was talked about, and planned,
* * *
But I gave it up for music,
* * * C (C4)(C) G C (C4)(C) G
And The Free E - lectric Band!
C (C4) (C) G
I went to school in handwashed shirts, with neatly oiled hair,
C (C4) (C) G
And the school was big, and newly built, and filled with light and air,
C (C4)(C) G
And the teacher taught us values, that we had to learn to keep,
C (C4) (C) G
And they clipped the ear of many i - dle kid who went to sleep!
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C F G/B C
'Til my father organ -ised for me... a college in the east,
C F G/B C
But I went to Cali - fornia, for the sunshine and the beach,
C F C/G G G7
My parents, and my lecturers, could never under - stand,
* * *
Why I gave it up for music,
* * * C (C4)(C) G C (C4)(C) G
And The Free E - lectric Band!
F C G G/B C
Well, they used to sit, and speculate, u - pon their son's car - eer,
F C G G/B C
A lawyer, or a docter, or a civil engin - eer,
C F C/G G G7
Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand,
* * *
'Cause all I need is music,
* * * C (C4)(C) G C (C4)(C) G
And The Free E - lectric Band!
C (C4)(C) G
My father sent me money, and I spent it very fast,
C (C4)(C) G
On a girl I met in Berkley, in a Social Science class,
C (C4) (C) G
Yes, and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know,
C (C4) (C) G
Un - til deep rooted atti - tudes, and morals, began to show!
C F G/B C
She wanted to get married, even though she never said,
C F G/B C
And I knew her well e - nough, by now, to see inside her head,
C F C/G G G7
She'd settle for sub - urbia, and a little patch of land,
* * *
So I gave her up for music,
* * * C (C4)(C) G C (C4)(C) G
And The Free E - lectric Band!
C (C4)(C) G
Oo---- oo-----, the Free Electric Band,
C (C4) (C) G
Dabba, da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band,
C (C4) (C) G
Dabba, da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band,
C (C4) (C) G
Dabba, da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band,
C (C4) (C) G
Dabba, da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band!
(Suggestion for coda)
* * * * * * C
All I need is music, and The Free E - lectric Band!
