[ar:Albert Hammond]
[ti:Free Electric Band]
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[00:10.14]My father is a doctor he's a familiar man
[00:15.08]My mother works for charity whenever she can
[00:19.56]They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law
[00:24.63]They both stick up for liberty they both support the law
[00:29.46]My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
[00:34.23]For summers in a summer camp and winters in the town
[00:39.07]My future in the system was talked about and planned
[00:44.28]But I gave it up for music and the free electric band
[00:57.74]I went to school in hand washed shirts with neatly oiled hair
[01:02.31]The school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
[01:07.27]And the teacher taught his values that we had to learn to keep
[01:12.17]And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep
[01:17.00]My father organized for me a college in the east
[01:21.94]But I went to California the sun shine and the beach
[01:26.82]My parents and my lecturers could never understand
[01:31.93]Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band
[01:40.57]Well they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
[01:45.59]A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
[01:50.24]Just give me bread and water put a guitar in my hand
[01:55.17]'Cause all I need is music and the free electric band
[02:08.52]My father sent me money and I spent it very fast
[02:13.17]On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class
[02:17.36]Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we didn't know
[02:22.92]Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
[02:27.83]She wanted to get married even though she never said
[02:32.48]But I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
[02:37.45]She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
[02:42.24]So I gave her up for music and the free electric band
[02:53.75]The free electric band
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