The Free Electric Band

Tom : C

[Intro]
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[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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They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law
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They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war.
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My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
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For summers in a summercamp 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 handwashed shirts with neatly oiled 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 teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep
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And they clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep.
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Till my father organised for me a college in the east
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But I went to California for 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.

[Bridge]
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Well they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
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A lawyer or a docter or a civil engineer
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Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand
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'Cos 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 Berkley in a social science class
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Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know
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Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show
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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.

[Outro]
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Oooh the Free Electric Band.
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shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.
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shaladah badup dup dee dee dee with Free Electric Band.