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The Free Electric Band by Albert Hammond - Guitar Chords
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Song: The Free Electric Band
Artist: Albert Hammond
Composers: Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood
Album: The Free Electric band
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar-)
24th July 2013
C = x32010 F = 133211
C4 = x33010 C/G = 332010
G = 320033 G7 = 323003 or 320001
G/B = x20033
* = No chords, tap beat on guitar body
The C4 is only implied by the vocal melody, and is not crucial,
but it adds a little more interest on a single guitar.
On those lines where I have the C4, the bass plays an upward progression
of the notes C, D, E on the end of the bar of C, then back down to a G.
So, as another option, you could play all those bars as below,
instead of the C4, as a little walk up on the 4th string:
C/D = xx0xxx C/E = xx2xxx
C C/D C/E G
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[Intro]
C C4 C G
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[Verse 1]
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
And 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!
[Verse 2]
C F G C
My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down,
C F G 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!
[Verse 3]
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!
[Verse 4]
C F G C
'Til my father organ - ised for me a college in the east,
C F G 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
And The Free E - lectric Band!
[Bridge]
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!
[Verse 5]
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 Berkeley, 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!
[Verse 6]
C F G C
She wanted to get married, even though she never said,
C F G 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
And The Free E - lectric Band!
[Coda]
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 ending]
* * * * * * C
All I need is music, and The Free E - lectric Band!
We also have 5 songs by Albert Hammond
- Down By The River
- It Never Rains In Southern California
- The Free Electric Band
- When I Need You
- When Im Gone
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