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Version 1 of Albert Hammond Lyrics The Free Electric Band (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/a/albert-hammond/the-free-electric-...) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||
| 1 | My father is a doctor, he's a family man, | My father is a doctor, he's a familiary man, | 1 | |||||||||
| My mother works for charity whenever she can, | My mother works for charity whenever she can, | |||||||||||
| They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law, | They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law, | |||||||||||
| 2 | They both stick up for liberty and they both would go to war | They both stick up for liberty, they both support the law, | 2 | |||||||||
| My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down, | My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down, | |||||||||||
| For Summers in a Summer camp, and Winters in the town, | For Summers in a Summer camp, and Winters in the town, | |||||||||||
| My future in the system was talked about and planned, | My future in the system was talked about and planned, | |||||||||||
| But I gave it up for music and the free electric band... | But I gave it up for music and the free electric band... | |||||||||||
| I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly oiled hair, | I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly oiled hair, | |||||||||||
| The school was big and newly built and filled with light and air, | The school was big and newly built and filled with light and air, | |||||||||||
| 3 | And the teachers taught us values that we had to learn to keep, | And the teache taught his values that we had to learn to keep, | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 | And they clipped the ear of many idle kids who went to sleep, | And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep, | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | My father organized for me a college in the East, | My father organized for me a college in the East,But I went | 5 | |||||||||
| 6 | But I went to California, the sun-shine and the beach, | to California, the sun-shine and the beach, | 6 | |||||||||
| My parents and my lecturers could never understand, | My parents and my lecturers could never understand, | |||||||||||
| Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band... | Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band... | |||||||||||
| Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career, | Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career, | |||||||||||
| 7 | A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer, | A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engingeer, | 7 | |||||||||
| Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand, | Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand, | |||||||||||
| 'cause all I need is music and the free electric band... | 'cause all I need is music and the free electric band... | |||||||||||
| My father sent me money and I spent it very fast, | My father sent me money and I spent it very fast, | |||||||||||
| On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class, | On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class, | |||||||||||
| Yes, and we learned about her body, but her mind we didn't know, | Yes, and we learned about her body, but her mind we didn't know, | |||||||||||
| 8 | Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show, | Until the brutal attitudes and morals began to show, | 8 | |||||||||
| 9 | She wanted to get married, even though she never said, | She wanted to get married, even thopugh she never said, | 9 | |||||||||
| But I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head, | But I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head, | |||||||||||
| She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land, | She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land, | |||||||||||
| 10 | So I gave her up for music and the free electric band... | So I geave her up for music and the free electric band... | 10 | |||||||||
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