Album Name

Four Hits : Albert Hammond

Artist

Albert Hammond

Genre

POP

Release Date

2011.07.18

Release Agency

Sony Music

The Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
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
Cos 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 class
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

Oooh the Free Electric Band
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