Albert Hammond - Free Electric Band lyrics

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My father is a doctor, he's a familiy man<br />

My mother works for charity whenever she can<br />

They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law<br />

They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war.<br />

My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down<br />

For summers in a summercamp and winters in the town<br />

My future in the system was talked about and planned<br />

But I gave it up for music and the Free Electric Band.<br />

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I went to school in handwashed shirts with neatly oiled hair<br />

And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air<br />

And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep<br />

And they clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep.<br />

Till my father organised for me a college in the east<br />

But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach<br />

My parents and my lecturers could never understand<br />

Why I gave it up for music and the Free electric band.<br />

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Well they used to sit and speculated upon their son's career<br />

A lawyer or a docter or a civil engineer<br />

Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand<br />

'Cos all I need is music and the Free Electric Band.<br />

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My father sent me money and I spent it pretty fast<br />

On a girl I met in Berkley in a social science class<br />

Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know<br />

Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show<br />

She wanted to get married even though she never said<br />

And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head<br />

She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land<br />

So I gave her up for music and the Free Electric Band.<br />

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