The Free Electric Band-Albert Hammond

[ti:The Free Electric Band] [ar:Albert Hammond Jr] [al:The Free Electric Band] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond [00:10.54]My father is a doctor [00:12.42]A he's family man [00:14.41] [00:15.16]My mother works for charity [00:17.66]Whenever she can [00:19.09] [00:20.03]They're both good clean Americans [00:22.28]Who abide by the law [00:24.02] [00:24.83]And they up both stick for liberty [00:27.08]And they both support the war [00:28.77] [00:29.76]My happiness was paid for [00:32.20]When they laid their money down [00:33.70] [00:34.57]For summers in a summer camp [00:36.44] [00:37.00]And winters in the tow [00:38.56] [00:39.62]My future in the system [00:41.06] [00:41.99]Was talked about and planned [00:44.49]But I gave it up for music [00:46.93]And the free electric band [00:48.61] [00:58.03]Went I to school in hand-washed shirts [01:00.40]With neatly ordered hair [01:01.59] [01:02.65]And the school was big and newly built [01:05.02]And filled with light and air [01:06.52] [01:07.45]And the teacher taught us values [01:09.76]That we had to learn to keep [01:11.32] [01:12.32]And he clipped the ear of many [01:14.44]Idle kid who went to sleep [01:16.07] [01:17.25]Then my father organized for me [01:19.75]A college in the east [01:21.06] [01:21.99]But I went to California [01:23.80] [01:24.43]The sunshine and the beach [01:26.05] [01:27.05]My parents and my lecturers could never understand [01:30.86] [01:31.85]Why gave I it up for music [01:34.29]And the free electric band [01:35.66] [01:40.59]They Well used to sit [01:42.15]And speculate upon their son's career [01:44.21] [01:45.21]A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer [01:49.33] [01:50.20]Just give me bread and water [01:52.51]Put a guitar in my hand [01:54.19] [01:55.00]Cause all I need is music [01:56.81] [01:57.45]And the free electric band [01:59.08] [02:08.44]My father sent me money [02:10.49]And I spent it very fast [02:11.84] [02:13.21]On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class [02:17.15] [02:17.83]Yes and we learnt her about body [02:20.20]But her mind we didn't know [02:21.89] [02:22.82]Until deep rooted attitudes [02:25.07]And morals began to show [02:26.76] [02:27.69]She wanted to get married [02:29.44] [02:30.06]Even though she never said [02:31.56] [02:32.50]But I knew her well enough by [02:34.62]Now to see inside her head [02:36.43] [02:37.36]She'd settle for suburbia [02:39.49]And a little patch of land [02:41.36] [02:42.17]So I gave her up for music [02:43.98] [02:44.60]And the free electric band [02:46.22] [02:53.59]The free electric band [02:54.92] [02:58.17]The free electric band [02:59.35] [03:02.79]The free electric band [03:04.16] [03:07.59]The free electric band [03:08.78] [03:12.27]The free electric band [03:13.58] [03:17.20]The free electric band