Free

6/17/26 

Most of this song is pretty much the same sort of pattern, except for the bridge 

Intro (main bass line used throughout multiple of the song parts) 

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  "Starin' at the dark again you left your silhouette upon my pillow...  hey, hey.." 
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  "Right inside the night I'm waiting for the light seems like I'm in the middle... hey, hey.." 
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  (Guitar riff 1, same as the intro line) 

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  "Workin' for something that I can't touch and sometimes can't even believe in.....  woah woah" 
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  "Cradled by the hands of fate the faith that sometimes wraps around too tight...     so tight" 
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 (same as intro) 
  "They call me free...               but I call me a fool..   hey, hey...         They call me" 
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  "Free...            but I call me a fool..  hey, hey..." 
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  (Guitar Riff 2) 
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  "Well I look back at April" (Guitar riff) "But she won't look back at me..   oh no no no..." 
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  " ...So I pray in May for June to stay but she just came to wash into the sea..       away...." 
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  "They call me free...               but I call me a fool..   hey, hey...         They call me" 
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  "Free...            but I call me a fool..  hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey" 
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{Guitar Solo} 

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 "Slipped   down to  Mexico,      Started messin' with her yellow   afro" 
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 "Slipped  down  behind the sheets, started talkin' 'bout pistol Pete, well" 
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 "Slipped  down to the African,           started talkin' 'bout what she can   do" 
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 "Well here we are again,  back where we started" 
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 "  Slipped down to the dark again,  you left your silhouette on my pillow,      yeah yeah" 
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 "Well I'm right inside the night I'm waitin' for the light, seems like I'm in the" 
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 "Seems like I'm always in the middle" 
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Outro 
  "They call me free...                      They call me free..."    
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 "Free...           ...but I call me a" 
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| h   Hammer-on 
| p   Pull-off 
| /   Slide  

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