Song: The Free Electric Band
Artist: Albert Hammond
Composers: Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood
Album: The Free Electric band
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
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, but adds interest
for 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.
[C/D] = xx0xxx [C/E] = xx2xxx
[C] [C/D] [C/E] [G]
| / / / /__/ | / / / / |
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[Intro]
[C] [C4] [C] [G]
||: / / / /__/ | / / / / :|| [x2]
[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!