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 (x32010@1) (C4)(C) G||: (320003@1) / / / /__/ | / / / / :|| (Twice)
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GMy (320003@1)father is a doctor, he's a family man,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GMy (320003@1)mother works for chari - ty, when - ever she can,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GThey're (320003@1)both good, clean, Americans who a - bide by the law,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GAnd (320003@1)they both stick up for liber - ty, and they both support the war!
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G/B (143121@7) CMy (x32010@1)happiness was paid for when they laid their money down,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G/B (143121@7) CFor (x32010@1)summers in a summer - camp, and winters in the town,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) G7My (320001@1)future in the system was talked about, and planned,
* * *
But I gave it up for music,
* * * C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GAnd (320003@1)The Free E - lectric Band!
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GI (320003@1)went to school in handwashed shirts, with neatly oiled hair,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GAnd (320003@1)the school was big, and newly built, and filled with light and air,
C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GAnd (320003@1)the teacher taught us values, that we had to learn to keep,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GAnd (320003@1)they clipped the ear of many i - dle kid who went to sleep!
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G/B (143121@7) C'Til (x32010@1)my father organ -ised for me... a college in the east,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G/B (143121@7) CBut (x32010@1)I went to Cali - fornia, for the sunshine and the beach,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) G7My (320001@1)parents, and my lecturers, could never under - stand,
* * *
Why I gave it up for music,
* * * C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GAnd (320003@1)The Free E - lectric Band!
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) G/B (143121@7) CWell, (x32010@1)they used to sit, and speculate, u - pon their son's car - eer,
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) G/B (143121@7) CA (x32010@1)lawyer, or a docter, or a civil engin - eer,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) G7Just (320001@1)give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand,
* * *
'Cause all I need is music,
* * * C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GAnd (320003@1)The Free E - lectric Band!
C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GMy (320003@1)father sent me money, and I spent it very fast,
C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GOn (320003@1)a girl I met in Berkley, in a Social Science class,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GYes, (320003@1)and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GUn (320003@1)- til deep rooted atti - tudes, and morals, began to show!
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G/B (143121@7) CShe (x32010@1)wanted to get married, even though she never said,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G/B (143121@7) CAnd (x32010@1)I knew her well e - nough, by now, to see inside her head,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) G7She'd (320001@1)settle for sub - urbia, and a little patch of land,
* * *
So I gave her up for music,
* * * C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GAnd (320003@1)The Free E - lectric Band!
C (x32010@1) (C4)(C) GOo---- (320003@1)oo-----, the Free Electric Band,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GDabba, (320003@1)da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GDabba, (320003@1)da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GDabba, (320003@1)da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band,
C (x32010@1) (C4) (C) GDabba, (320003@1)da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep ...for The Free Electric Band!
(Suggestion for coda)
* * * * * * CAll (x32010@1)I need is music, and The Free E - lectric Band!
