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Free bird - original version

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Publishers: ©Universal Music Publishing Group
Popularity : 2310 users have visited this page
Released : November 23, 1974
Certification : Silver (UK)
Writer(s) : Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant
Genre : Southern rock, hard rock
Label : MCA
Producer : Al Kooper
Recorded : April 3, 1973 at Studio One, Doraville, Georgia
Format : 7 inch

Length : 9:06 (album), 4:18 (single), 3:31 (radio edit), 10:08 (full version), 11:09 (demo version)
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If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But, if I stayed here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you can not change
Lord knows, I can't change

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love
Though this feeling I can't change
But please don't take it badly
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame
But, if I stayed here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you'll never change
And this bird you can not change
Lord knows, I can't change
Lord help me, I can't change

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