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Version 1 Version 2[Intro] C G e|-------------------------|-------------------------| B|---8-8-8-8--10-8--8---8--|---3--3--3---------------| G|---9-9-9-9--9--9--11--9--|---4--4--4---------------| x2 D|-------------------------|---5--5--5---------------| A|-------------------------|-------------------------| E|-------------------------|-------------------------| [Verse 1] C G My father is a doctor, he's a family man C G My mother works for charity whenever she can C G They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law C G They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war. C F G C My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down C F G C For summers in a summercamp and winters in the town G F C G My future in the system was talked about and planned C F G C But I gave it up for music and the Free Electric Band. [Verse 2] C G I went to school in handwashed shirts with neatly oiled hair C G And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air C G And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep C G And they clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep. C F G C Till my father organised for me a college in the east C F G C But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach C F G C My parents and my lecturers could never understand N.C. C G Why I gave it up for music and the Free electric band. [Bridge] F C G C Well they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career F C G C A lawyer or a docter or a civil engineer F C G Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand C F G C 'Cos all I need is music and the Free Electric Band. [Verse 3] C G My father sent me money and I spent it very fast C G On a girl I met in Berkley in a social science class C G Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know C G Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show C F G C She wanted to get married even though she never said C F G C And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head C F G C She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land N.C C G So I gave her up for music and the Free Electric Band. [Outro] C G Oooh the Free Electric Band. C G shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band. C G shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.