The Free Electric Band Chords by Albert Hammond

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[C] My father is a doctor, he [G] sells vaccines for the labor market.
[C] My mother works for charity [G] when there was a state bank.
[C] There are both good, clean Americans [G] who abide by the law.
[C] They both stick up for liberty and [G] they both support the law.
[C] My happiness [F] was paid for when [G] they laid their [C] money down.
For summers in [F] a summer camp [G] and winters [C] in the town.
Our future in the system was talked about [G] and planned.
But I gave [Dm] it up for [C] music and a free electric band.
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_ [C] I went to school in hand [G] washers when need be over in here.
[C] And the school was big and newly built [G] and filled with light and air.
[C] And the teachers taught us values [G] that we had to learn.
_ [C] And they tripped the air off any [G] idle kid who went.
[C] And my father [F] organized for [G] me a college in [C] the east.
But I went to [F] California, [G] the sunshine and [C] the beach.
Our parents [D] and my lecturers [C] could never [G] understand.
[Bm] Why I [E] gave it up for music and a [C] free electric band.
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They [F] used to sit [G] and speculate upon their [C] son's career.
[F] A lawyer, a [C] lawyer [G] doctor or a civil [C] engineer.
Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my [G] hand.
[D] Cause all I need is music and a free [C] electric band.
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_ [C] They sent me money [G] and I spent it very fast.
[C] On a girl I met in Berkeley [G] in a social science class.
[C] Yes and we learned about her body but her [G] mind we didn't know.
[C] Until the rooted attitudes [G] and morals began to show.
[C] She wanted to [F] get married [G] even though she [C] never said.
And I knew her [F] well enough by [G] now to see [C] inside her head.
She'd settled for suburbia and a little patch of [G] land.
So [Gm] I gave her up for music and a free [C] electric band.
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I'm [C] _ _ dancing [G] with a free _
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