The Free Electric Band Tab uke di Albert Hammond

[Verse 1]

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My father is a doctor, he's a family man
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My mother works for charity whenever she can
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And they're both good clean Americans who abide by the law
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And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war

[Chorus 1]

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My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
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For summers in a summer camp and winters in the town
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My future in the system was talked about and planned
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But I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band

[Verse 2]

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I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
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And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
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And the teachers taught us values that we had to learn to keep
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And they'd clip the ear of any idle kid who went to sleep

[Chorus 2]

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And my father organised for me a college in the east
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But I went to California, the sunshine and the beach
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My parents and my lecturers could never understand
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Why I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band

[Chorus 3]

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Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
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A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
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Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand
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Cause all I need is music and The Free Electric Band

[Verse 3]

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My father sent me money and I spent it very fast
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On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class
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Yes, and we learnt about her body but her mind we didn't know
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Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show

[Coda]

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She wanted to get married even though she never said
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And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
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She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
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So I gave her up for music and The Free Electric Band