Free Electric Band (GP-806)

Free Electric Band (GP-806) Tommy Morgenroth

OPENER:
4 LADIES CHAIN, YOU TURN THE GIRL MY FRIEND
YOU CHAIN THE LADY RIGHT BACK HOME AROUND THAT BIG ‘OLE LAND
YOU JOIN UP HANDS AND CIRCLE TO THE LEFT GO MOVING THERE
DO AN ALLEMANDE LEFT THAT CORNER GIRL,
GONNA WEAVE AROUND FROM THERE
MY HAPPINESS WAS PAID FOR WHEN THEY LAID THEIR MONEY DOWN
FOR SUMMERS IN A SUMMER CAMP AND WINTERS IN THE TOWN
MY FUTURE IN THE SYSTEM WAS TALKED ABOUT AND PLANNED
BUT I GAVE IT UP FOR MUSIC AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND

FIGURE:
HEADS (SIDES) COUPLES PROMENADE GO HALF WAY ‘ROUND THE FLOOR
COME DOWN THE MIDDLE AND SQUARE THRU IN THE MIDDLE AND GET ME FOUR
GO ALL THE WAY AND THEN: SWING THRU MY DEAR
LET THE BOY RUN AROUND THAT GIRL
GO FERRIS WHEEL FROM HERE
YOU SQUARE THRU GO THREE, TO THE CORNER LADY SWING
YOU SWING AND WHIRL THE PRETTY LITTLE GIRL
AND PROMENADE THAT RING
JUST GIVE ME BREAD AND WATER PUT A GUITAR IN MY HAND
‘COS ALL I NEED IS MUSIC AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND

BREAK / CLOSER         48 BEATS ONLY!

WALK AROUND YOUR CORNER LADY, SEE SAW YOUR OWN
BOYS STAR BY THE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE AND A LET ME GO
ALLEMANDE LEFT YOUR CORNER, TURN YOUR PARTNER BY THE RIGHT
LEFT ALLEMANDE THAT CORNER GIRL AND PROMENADE TONIGHT
MY PARENTS AND MY LECTURERS COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND
WHY I GAVE IT UP FOR MUSIC AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND

TAG:
SIDES FACE GRAND SQUARE
SHALADAH BADUP DUP DEE DEE DEE AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND.
SHALADAH BADUP DUP DEE DEE DEE AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND.
SHALADAH BADUP DUP DEE DEE DEE AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND.
SHALADAH BADUP DUP DEE DEE DEE AND THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND.

Original Lyrics
Original Artist:    Albert Hammond
Composer:         Albert Louis Hammond / Mike Hazlewood
Writer:         Albert Louis Hammond / Mike Hazlewood
Publisher:        Rondor Music (London) Ltd.

My father is a doctor he's a family man
my mother works for charity whenever she can
and they're both good clean Americans who abide by the law
and they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
my happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
for summers in a summer camp and winters in the town
my future in the system was talked about and planned
but I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band

I went to school in hand washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
and the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
and the teachers taught us values that we had to learn to keep
and they'd clip the ear of any idle kid who went to sleep
my father organized for me a college in the east
but I went to California the sunshine and the beach
my parents and my lecturers could never understand
why I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band

well they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
a lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
just give me bread and water put a guitar in my hand
‘cos all I need is music and The Free Electric Band

my father sent me money and I spent it very fast
on a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class
yes and we learnt about her body but her mind we didn't know
until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
she wanted to get married even though she never said
but I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
she'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
so I gave her up for music and The Free Electric Band

shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.
shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.
shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.
shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.