Titel: THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND Interpret: ALBERT HAMMOND -------------------------------------------------------------------- My father is a doctor, he's a family man, My mother works for charity whenever she can. They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law, And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the law. My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down For summers in a summer camp 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 ordered 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 any idle kid who went to sleep And my father organised for me a college in the east But I went to California for 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 speculate upon their son's career, A lawyer or a doctor 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 very fast, On a girl I met in Berkley in a social science class, Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we didn't know, Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show, She wanted to get married even though she never said, I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head, She'd settle for Suburbia and a little strip of land. So I gave her up for music and the free electric band.
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