Free Bird

Free Bird
Written by	Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant
Appears on	N/A
Sung by	Joe Hawley
Duration	It's like 9 minutes!
Genre	Southern Rock, Country, Ballad
Language	English
Links:	Live Performance from 2006 (YouTube)

Free Bird is a song by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, and performed by the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

A staple at concerts for many decades is to shout "Play Free Bird" as a joke, likely due to the song's length. In 2006, Tally Hall would learn the song note-by-note for their live concerts because people love shouting it out and they wanted to "teach them a lesson." Tally Hall would perform Free Bird usually at the beginning or in the encore of a concert from 2006 to 2009, but was retired from the setlist for unknown reasons.

Lyrics

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But if I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change

Oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird, you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change

Bye-bye, baby, it's been sweet love, yeah, yeah
Though this feelin' I can't change
Please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows, I'm to blame

If I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change

Oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird, you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change

Lord help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah

Tabs/Chords

Taken from e-Chords.

G    D            Em 
If I leave here tomorrow
F         C              D
Would you still remember me?
G             D          Em
For I must be travelling on now
F                    C             D
Cos there's too many places I must see

G    D              Em
If I stay here with you girl
F           C               D
Things just couldn't be the same
G          D         Em
Cos I'm as free as a bird now
F        C               D
And this bird you cannot change
F        C               D
And this bird you cannot change
F        C               D
And this bird you cannot change
F    C             D
Lord knows I can't change

G        D           Em
Bye bye, it's been a sweet love
F           C               D
Though this feeling I can't change
G                D          Em
But please don't take it so badly
F                  C      D
Cos the Lord knows I'm to blame
 
G        D              Em
But if I stay here with you girl
F           C               D
Things just couldn't be the same
G          D         Em
Cos I'm as free as a bird now
F        C               D
And this bird you cannot change oh oh oh
F        C               D
And this bird you cannot change
F        C               D
And this bird you cannot change
F    C             D
Lord knows I can't change

F    C               D
Lord help me I can't change
G    Bb      C
Lord I can't change
G  Bb      C
Oh I can't change
G   Bb   C           G
Fly high freebird oh yeah! . . .

Live Performances

2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XCCigeYPs8
December 10th 2009: at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland