My father is a doctor,
he's a family 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 summer camp 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 an 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 speculate 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 didn't know
Until deep rooted
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
Ooh the
Free Electric Band
Shaladah dup dee dee dee
with a Free Electric Band
Shaladah dup dee dee dee
with a Free Electric Band
Shaladah dup dee dee dee
with a Free Electric Band
Shaladah dup dee dee dee
with a Free Electric Band
Shaladah dup dee dee dee
with a Free Electric Band