Free Electric Band Lyrics - Singles - Hammond Albert

My father is a doctor, he's a familiy man 

My mother works for charity whenever she can 

They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law 

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 summercamp 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 handwashed shirts with neatly oiled hair 

And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air 

And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep 

And they clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep. 

Till my father organised for me a college in the east 

But I went to California for 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 speculated upon their son's career 

A lawyer or a docter 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 pretty fast 

On a girl I met in Berkley in a social science class 

Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know 

Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show 

She wanted to get married even though she never said 

And 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. 

Oooh the Free Electric Band. 

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