The Free Electric Band-Albert Hammond

[ti:The Free Electric Band] [ar:Albert Hammond Jr] [al:Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond [00:10.41]My father is a doctor [00:12.62]He's a family man [00:14.70] [00:15.27]My mother works for charity whenever she can [00:19.09] [00:20.09]They're both good clean Americans [00:22.23]Who abide by the law [00:24.40] [00:24.98]And they both stick up for liberty [00:27.28]And they both support the war [00:29.01] [00:29.82]My happiness was paid for [00:31.96]When they laid their money down [00:34.08] [00:34.72]For summers in a summer camp [00:37.15]And winters in the tow [00:38.85] [00:39.60]My future in the system was talked about and planned [00:44.51]But I gave it up for music [00:46.96]And the free electric band [00:49.97] [00:57.89]I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair [01:02.00] [01:02.75]And the school was big and newly built [01:05.32]And filled with light and air [01:07.67]And the teacher taught us values [01:09.93]That we had to learn to keep [01:12.51]And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep [01:16.74] [01:17.38]Then my father organized for me a college in the east [01:21.76] [01:22.33]But I went to California [01:24.81]The sunshine and the beach [01:26.75] [01:27.26]My parents and my lecturers could never understand [01:31.57] [01:32.26]Why I gave it up for music [01:34.59]And the free electric band [01:37.47] [01:40.24]Well they used to sit [01:41.69]And speculate upon their son's career [01:45.02] [01:45.65]A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer [01:49.72] [01:50.40]Just give me bread and water [01:52.91]Put a guitar in my hand [01:55.03] [01:55.60]'Cause all I need is music [01:57.86]And the free electric band [02:00.99] [02:08.72]My father sent me money [02:10.81]And I spent it very fast [02:13.59]On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class [02:18.22]Yes and we learnt about her body [02:20.69]But her mind we didn't know [02:22.69] [02:23.26]Until deep rooted attitudes [02:25.69]And morals began to show [02:27.64] [02:28.15]She wanted to get married [02:30.47]Even though she never said [02:32.97]But I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head [02:37.71]She'd settle for suburbia [02:40.18]And a little patch of land [02:42.28] [02:42.85]So I gave her up for music [02:45.11]And the free electric band [02:47.74] [02:53.60]The free electric band [02:55.51] [02:58.66]The free electric band [03:00.35] [03:03.30]The free electric band [03:05.12] [03:08.01]The free electric band [03:09.89] [03:12.97]The free electric band [03:14.78] [03:17.67]The free electric band