To Be Free chords by Strawbs

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
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Verse:
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The gilt-edged invitation came and I said, "What can this mean?
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To attend the coronation as the first guest of the Queen
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And sit upon her right hand, where the Prince is normally seen?"
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The maids of honour stared at me and registered surprise
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To see a man of such good taste, appear before their eyes
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Now bring rather humble, I adopted a disguise
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As the Minister of State for Mass Environment Controls
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Who condemn the working classes for inhabiting the holes
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That belong to Queen and Country, but do not permit their souls
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To be free like me
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To be free like me
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Oh, to be free__

Verse:
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The Perspex chandelier began to melt and slip away
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One million candle-powered, it kept the night at bay
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While the power station workers were busy making hay
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The workers in the fields were engaged in self-defence
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Which involved the use of barbed wire as a self-containing fence
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But as a means of self-protection, it was needlessly immense
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I stopped to ask them for a light, they pointed at the sun
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Which raised their hopes of harvesting a better crop than guns
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Can ever mass produce at the expense of anyone
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Who is free like me
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Who is free like me
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Oh, who is free__

Verse:
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The solitary peasant in his home above the lake
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Raised high on wooden stilts, has made the singular mistake
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Of revolutionary conduct at the celebration wake
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His urban counterpart engaged in mundane occupation
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Enjoys the chance of laughing at the Queen's humiliation
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At the hands of Ministers of State for Rehabilitation
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Now the power station worker, though his aim is too disjointed
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Finds himself around the corner, while his gun is never pointed
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He is ever at the ready, he desires to be anointed
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And be free like me
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And be free like me
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And be free__