The Free Electric Band    (intro)    (midi)

 

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1. My father is a doctor, he's a familiy 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 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.

 

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2. I went to school in hand washed 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.

 

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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.

 

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3. My father sent me money and I spent it pretty 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.

 

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    Ooh, the Free Electric Band.

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    Baba dab da dab, dip dibi dub, Free Electric Band.

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    Baba dab da dab, dip dibi dub, Free Electric Band…..

 

    (Albert Hammond)