Hammond Albert - Free Electric Band lyrics

My father is a doctor, he's a familiy man My mother works for charity whenever she can They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war. My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down For summers in a summercamp 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 oiled 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 many idle kid who went to sleep. Till my father organised for me a college in the east But I went to California for the 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 speculated upon their son's career A lawyer or a docter or a civil engineer Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand 'Cause all I need is music and the Free Electric Band. My father sent me money and I spent it pretty fast On a girl I met in Berkley in a social science cla** Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show She wanted to get married even though she never said And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land So I gave her up for music and the Free Electric Band.