The Free Electric Band Chords by Albert Hammond

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_ [C] My mother is a doctor, [G] he's a family man.
My [C] mother works for charity [G] when they're ashamed.
And [C] they're both good, clean Americans who [G] abide by the law.
[C] And they both stick up for liberty [G] and they both support the law.
[C] My happiness [F] was paid for [G] when they laid their money [C] down.
For summers in a [F] summer camp [G] and winters in the [C] town.
My future in [F] the system [C] was talked [G] about and planned.
But I gave it up for [C] music and a free electric bed.
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_ _ [C] _ _ Washers [G] went neatly over the hair.
[C] And the school was big and newly [G] built and filled with light and air.
[C] And the teacher taught us values that [G] we had to learn to keep.
And [C] they clipped the ear of any [G] idle kid who went to sleep.
And [C] my father [F] organized for me [G] a college [C] in the east.
But I went to [F] California, [G] the sunshine [C] and the beach.
My parents and [F] my lecturers [C] could never [G] understand.
Why I gave it up for music and a [C] free electric bed.
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_ [F] Well they used to [G] sit and speculate upon their son's [C] career.
[F] A lawyer [C] [G] or a civil [C] engineer.
Just give me bread [Fm] and water, [C] put a guitar [G] in my head.
Cause [C] all I need is music and a free electric bed.
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_ [C] My father sent me money and [G] I spent it very fast.
[C] On a girl I met in Berkeley [G] in a social science class.
Yes [C] and we learned about her body [G] but her mind we didn't know.
[C] Until deep 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 well [F] _ [G] enough to see [C] inside her head.
She settled for suburbia and a [G] little patch of land.
So I [C] gave her up for music and a free electric bed.
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