The Free Electric Band Acordes

Song: The Free Electric Band
Artist: Albert Hammond
Composers: Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood
Album: The Free Electric band
 
Tabbed by DJ 24th July 2013
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers
 
C  = x32010    F   = 133211
C4 = x33010    C/G = 332010
G  = 320033    G7  = 323003 or 320001
               G/B = x20033
 
* = No chords, tap the beat on the guitar body
 
The C4 is only implied by the vocal melody,
and is not crucial. On those lines where there's a C4
the bass plays an upward progression of the notes
C, D, E on the end of the bar of C, then back 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         C     C4 C  G
| / / / /_/ | / / / / | / / / /_/ | / / / / |
 
[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
And they're both good, clean Americans...
       C4  C    G
...Who a - bide by the law,
         C                         C4
And they both stick up for liber - ty,
C        G
And they both support the war
 
[Verse 2]
   C             F
My happiness was paid for... 
          G                C
When they laid their money down,
    C            F
For summers in a summer-camp,
    G              C                      F
And winters in the town, my future in the system...
    C/G              G          G7
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
I went to school in handwashed shirts,
C    G
With neatly oiled hair,
         C                        C4
And the school was big, and newly built,
C   G
And filled with light and air,
        C
And the teacher taught us values,
C4   C  G                             C
That we had to learn to keep and they clipped the ear
        C4  C   G
Of many i - dle kid who went to sleep
 
[Verse 4]
        C              F
'Til my father organ - ised for me...
     G              C                         F
...A college in the east but I went to Cali - fornia,
        G                C
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
Well, they used to sit, and speculate,
    G         G/B         C
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
Just give me bread and water,
      C/G          G      G7
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
On a girl I met in Berkeley,
C4  C  G
In  a  Social Science class,
            C
Yes, and we learnt about her body,
C4  C   G
But her mind we didn't know,
     C                      C4
Un - til deep rooted atti - tudes,
C   G
And morals, began to show
 
[Verse 6]
    C             F            G                C
She wanted to get married even though she never said,
      C                 F
And I knew her well e - nough by now...
   G              C                            F
To see inside her head, she'd settle for sub - urbia,
      C/G             G      G7
And a little patch of land,
     *        *     *
So I gave her up for music,
*       *        *       C      C4 C  G
And The Free E - lectric Band
C      C4 C         G
Oo---- oo-----, the Free Electric Band!
 
[Coda]
            C              C4       C
||:  Dabba, da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep...
             G
  ...For The Free Electric Band,
            C              C4       C
     Dabba, da, da-da, da, dee-dee, deep!
             G
  ...For The Free Electric Band :|| (Repeat)
 
[Suggestion for ending]
*     *       *      *       *        *       C
All I need is music, and The Free E - lectric Band
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